What is Cornerstone Galaxy?

Cornerstone Galaxy is an enterprise platform from Cornerstone that combines learning, talent management and skills intelligence, with AI assistants and agents. It runs as a cloud platform with a mobile app and is also listed in AWS Marketplace.

Who it's for

The vendor targets Chief Learning Officers, Chief HR Officers and CIOs, and lists industries such as public sector, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, higher education and financial services, plus a small and midsized business offering. It publishes no individual or self-serve plan.

Pros & cons

Strengths

Cornerstone lists packages on its pricing page: Learn+ (learning, curated content subscription, Role Readiness Academies, AI assistants), Elevate+ (adds performance and talent marketplace) and Intelligence+ (workforce intelligence, People Graph, Skills Architect).
The vendor says Learn+, Elevate+ and HCM+ can each be paired with Intelligence+ and Readiness Agents, and that customers can upgrade or add solutions, packages or agents at any time.
Cornerstone's September 2025 announcement describes learner, admin and content agents, tools to convert SCORM content into conversational experiences, MCP support for Microsoft and Salesforce environments, and an AI Skills Engine using SkyHive's Knowledge Graph.
The pricing page says implementation services, 24/7 technical support, and optional 1:1 coaching or a dedicated customer success manager are available, and that content vectorization lets a customer's own content power summaries, Q&A and knowledge checks.
Cornerstone's Trust Center names SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, 27701:2019 and 42001:2023, GDPR, FedRAMP Moderate and CSA STAR Level 1, among other certifications.
Cornerstone says Galaxy is generally available in AWS Marketplace (announced September 15, 2025).

Limitations

No dollar prices are published. The pricing page says pricing varies and directs buyers to contact sales; it states the basis (per employee per year for Learn+ and HCM+, tiered bands by total employee count for Intelligence+) but no amounts, minimum seats or term length.
Readiness Agents are sold individually by outcome and require Intelligence+; Custom Agents are scoped with Cornerstone's forward-deployed engineers, and neither has a listed price.
Implementation services and optional coaching or a dedicated CSM are listed without prices, so total cost beyond the package is unclear. No refund or cancellation terms appear on the pages read.
The Trust Center page does not say whether customer data is used to train AI models, or where data is hosted; the AI Policy and Hosting Regions documents require a Get access request.
Several September 2025 capabilities (agents, conversational interface, AgentReady, MCP support) had no stated availability date; only the Simplilearn AI content (Q4 2025) and the SkyHive integration had timing. Cornerstone's site also labels the platform Cornerstone Workforce AI, which its pages do not explain.

Plans and pricing

Learn+: Contact sales (per employee per year). Learning, curated content subscription, Role Readiness Academies, AI experiences and assistants for learning.
Elevate+: Contact sales. Everything in Learn+ plus performance management, talent marketplace and AI assistants for talent development.
Intelligence+: Contact sales (tiered bands by employee count). Workforce intelligence, People Graph with live workforce signals, Skills Architect, open headless access across systems.
HCM+: Contact sales (per employee per year). Additional solution covering hiring, performance, development, mobility, succession, compensation and workforce data.
Extended Enterprise+: Contact sales. Additional solution for training external audiences, with self-registration, ecommerce, payments and content.
Readiness Agents and Custom Agents: Contact sales. Readiness Agents are sold individually by outcome and require Intelligence+; Custom Agents are scoped with the vendor's engineers.

Read from the official Cornerstone packages page, which names packages and pricing bases but lists no dollar amounts, seat minimums or contract terms. All pricing is by quote. Confirm on the live pricing page and with Cornerstone sales.

Details checked November 2026 against the vendor's own pages. Prices and limits change, so confirm before you buy. Official pricing page ↗

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