Impact
Building workforce mobility, unlocking infrastructure, and scaling craft across America
Skillit’s AI hiring infrastructure places skilled trade workers into durable construction careers supporting mission-critical infrastructure. Because we capture first-person worker and platform data, we can quantify workforce mobility, earnings outcomes and infrastructure enablement in real time.
Below is a living view of that impact.
Craft careers started
Active trade-region cells (e.g. carpenters in Dallas, TX) have grown 3x in the past quarter as Skillit’s AI increases recruiter productivity and hiring liquidity across markets. Some cells now show meaningful market share (as high as 40%), while newer ones are scaling rapidly (as fast as 88% m/m).
Likewise, hiring activity on Skillit is beginning to compound. Since launching Sam, our AI interview scheduler, in early 2025 and reaching liquidity in several priority markets, the platform is converting supply into interviews and hires more efficiently — creating a flywheel where more workers lead to more connections, more hires, and more predictable outcomes for contractors.
Workers on Skillit are also entering durable construction careers across a wide range of trades. Placement volume today reflects both customer hiring demand and where Skillit has reached meaningful supply density.
Its not surprising given our Top ENR customer base that Skillit hiring is strongest in high-growth infrastructure corridors like Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Tennessee, and Florida where data center, energy, and industrial projects are growing quickly and creating durable craft employment.
Those hires are seeing a 14% uplift in pay and benefits on average compared to their prior role. The biggest gains (between 20% and 30%) come when workers move from small shops with sub $10M in revenue to national contractors like DPR, Mortenson, and Swinerton who are building out America's data and energy infrastructure. Then we have mid-tier transitions delivering 10–20% improvements as workers gain access to stronger benefits and more predictable pay from our enterprise customer base.
Infrastructure unlocked
Enterprise adoption of Skillit is accelerating as coverage expands across priority trade-region cells. Top ENR customers with $1B+ in revenue hiring via Skillit grew from 5 to 16 in five months (+2.5x growth), including 4 new enterprise customers in January alone.
And as more enterprise contractors adopt Skillit, workforce placement supports a growing number of active infrastructure projects.
Because Skillit’s customers build mission-critical infrastructure, especially data centers, energy, and large commercial projects, workforce placement directly translates into significant infrastructure value enabled.