We're excited to announce the launch of our Cornerstone Consulting services. After more than a decade working deep inside and alongside Cornerstone, becoming a Cornerstone Certified Implementation Partner was a logical, long-overdue step – and it lets us support organizations across the entire Cornerstone journey.
For years we've helped organizations improve Cornerstone through customization, employee experience design, communication campaigns and branded learning environments. Those projects gave us something equally valuable: a deep understanding of what makes Cornerstone successful long after go-live.
Today we're expanding that expertise with dedicated consulting services for implementation, migration, optimization and training & enablement, alongside the experience & customization services you already know us for.
Whether you're starting a brand-new implementation, preparing for Workforce AI or looking to get more from an existing environment, we're here to help.
Why we're expanding our Cornerstone services
Cornerstone is one of the most powerful learning and talent platforms available today. But getting the platform live is only one part of the journey.
Over the years we've worked alongside organizations on customization projects, employee experiences and adoption initiatives. As those relationships grew, so did the conversations.
Clients weren't only asking how to improve a page or create a better learner experience. They wanted advice on implementation decisions, platform governance, optimization opportunities, administrator enablement and preparing for Workforce AI.
Those conversations made one thing clear.
Organizations wanted a partner that could support them beyond individual projects and help them get more value from Cornerstone over the long term.
That's why we're expanding our services with dedicated Cornerstone Consulting.
The conversations we kept having
Over the years we've noticed the same conversations coming up again and again.
- We're implementing Cornerstone. Where do we start?
- Are we making the most of the platform today?
- Is now the right time to prepare for Workforce AI?
- Why isn't adoption where we'd like it to be?
- Could our administrative processes be more efficient?
- How do we prepare our administrators for long-term success?
- What should our Cornerstone roadmap look like over the next few years?
These questions go beyond configuration or individual feature requests. They require a broader view of the platform and a partner who understands the full Cornerstone journey.
That's exactly what our expanded consulting services are designed to support.
Hi, I'm Simen
Many of these conversations land with me. I'm Simen-Ling La, Senior Project Manager at Octily.
Across Cornerstone implementations, optimization projects, migrations and long-term platform strategy, I work closely with organizations to help them make the right decisions at every stage of their Cornerstone journey.
Whether you're preparing for your first implementation, reviewing an existing environment or planning your move to Workforce AI, my goal is always the same: a platform that works for your organization today and keeps evolving with you.
"Getting Cornerstone live is only one milestone. The real goal is creating an experience people keep coming back to."
Simen-Ling La
Leading our consulting services
Supporting every stage of the journey
Every organization starts from a different place.
Some are preparing for implementation. Others are reviewing an existing environment, planning a migration or looking for ways to improve adoption.
Wherever you are today in your Cornerstone journey, we can support you.
Implementation
Every successful Cornerstone environment starts with the right foundation.
Whether you're implementing Cornerstone for the first time or rolling out additional products, we'll help you make the right decisions from the beginning. From planning and configuration to governance and go-live, we focus on creating an environment that's scalable, secure, maintainable and built around the way your organization works.
A well-planned implementation doesn't just reduce risk during launch. It makes every improvement that follows easier.
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Migration
Technology keeps evolving and so does Cornerstone.
Whether you're preparing for Workforce AI or another Cornerstone transition, migration is about much more than moving from one experience to another. It's an opportunity to review your environment, simplify years of configuration, modernize processes and create a stronger foundation for the future.
Rather than recreating the past, we help organizations use migration as a chance to improve the platform.
Optimization
Getting Cornerstone live is only one milestone.
As your organization grows, new opportunities emerge to simplify administration, improve adoption and make better use of the functionality already available.
We'll review your existing environment, identify opportunities for improvement and help your platform continue evolving alongside your organization.
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Training & Enablement
The best platform in the world still depends on the people managing it.
We help administrators, HR teams and internal stakeholders build the knowledge and confidence needed to manage Cornerstone effectively. Through practical training, knowledge transfer and ongoing guidance, we help internal teams become more independent over time.
The goal isn't simply to deliver a platform. It's to leave your team confident running it.
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Experience & Customization
This is where many organizations already know us.
For years we've helped organizations transform standard Cornerstone environments into experiences that feel like a natural part of their own organization. From branded pages and employee journeys to communication campaigns, custom functionality and digital experiences, we help create a platform people actually enjoy using.
Because successful adoption doesn't happen through configuration alone.
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Workforce AI: an opportunity, not just a migration
One of the biggest topics in the Cornerstone community today is Workforce AI – Cornerstone's new single architecture, and the platform most organizations will be moving onto next.
For many organizations, migration is initially seen as a technical project. In reality, it's one of the best opportunities to step back and evaluate how the platform supports the organization as a whole.
Years of platform updates, changing business requirements and evolving processes naturally create complexity over time. Migration creates a natural moment to:
- Simplify existing configurations
- Review and improve business processes
- Strengthen governance and administration
- Rethink the employee experience
- Prepare the platform for future growth
Rather than asking:
"How do we move our current setup into Workforce AI?"
we encourage organizations to ask a different question:
"How do we create a better Cornerstone experience for the years ahead?"
Those are the conversations where consulting creates the biggest value. Because most of what makes a platform change succeed isn't the technology – by many estimates, around 70% of the outcome comes down to people and process. Moving the data is the straightforward part; bringing your people, processes and experience with it – Human to the power of AI, as Cornerstone puts it – is where success is decided.
Built on certified Cornerstone expertise
Becoming a Cornerstone Certified Implementation Partner wasn't a new beginning. It simply made official what had already been true for years.
For more than a decade we've worked alongside organizations to improve Cornerstone through customization, employee experience, communication, branded learning environments and platform enhancements.
Across more than 300 projects and over 20 million learners, we've seen where implementations succeed and where they quietly go wrong. And unlike a pure implementation partner, we don't just configure Cornerstone – we build on it, shipping custom pages, MicroApps and experiences alongside the rollout, in weeks rather than quarters.
Those projects gave us something equally valuable: a deep understanding of how organizations use Cornerstone in practice, what drives long-term success and where challenges tend to appear after go-live.
Our consulting services build on that experience by adding dedicated support for implementation, migration, optimization and training & enablement.
Together, they allow us to support organizations across the full Cornerstone journey – from the strategic decisions behind the platform to the day-to-day experience of the people using it.
More than implementation
One of the things that makes Octily different is that implementation is only one part of how we help organizations succeed with Cornerstone.
Our consulting services create the right foundation through implementation, migration, optimization and training.
Our existing services build on that foundation.
Experience & Customization
Branded experiences, custom pages, communication, employee journeys and functionality designed around the way your organization works.
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Creative
Launch campaigns, internal communication, video, branding and storytelling that help employees understand what's changing and encourage adoption.
Products
Products like the Octily Content Editor, Chatbot Studio, Browser Notifications and our growing collection of MicroApps extend Cornerstone with additional functionality and help solve everyday challenges.
Together, these services create something much bigger than a successful implementation.
They create a Cornerstone environment that's configured around your organization, designed for your people and built to evolve with you over time.