About Chronos
Chronos exists because running a serious training program shouldn't require five vendors, twelve spreadsheets, and a full-time integration engineer. One platform. One record. Workflows that hold up under audit.
The thesis
A person who applies to a program, gets hired, goes through training, earns a credential, and shows up in a compliance filing — that's one person. Their journey is one continuous record. In most organizations, it lives in five disconnected tools.
Every handoff between those tools leaks data. Every audit turns into a treasure hunt. Every new feature requires a new integration project. The compound cost — in time, money, and audit risk — is enormous, but it's invisible because everyone has accepted the stack as inevitable.
Chronos rejects that premise. One schema, one platform, one source of truth — with the three modules modern workforce programs actually need: a full LMS at the core, a work-sample hiring module, and a compliance suite that treats RAPIDS and PIRL as first-class outputs rather than spreadsheets you have to reconstruct.
Principles
Your learners, their records, their certificates — you own them. On self-hosted Chronos, your data never leaves your infrastructure. On managed Chronos, you can export everything at any time and we'll delete our copy on request.
RAPIDS, PIRL, WIOA, OSHA, state workforce reporting — the fields must match the schema exactly, the audit trail must be immutable, the signatures must be defensible. We treat regulatory output as a first-class product surface, not an afterthought.
Every plan has a learner cap, not a metered price. Train the next thousand people without doubling your bill. Train the next ten thousand without renegotiating. Pricing shouldn't punish you for succeeding.
Ten perfectly connected workflows outperform a hundred disconnected features. A candidate's rubric score should flow into their onboarding. An apprentice's OJT hours should trigger an LMS re-enrollment. The value is in the wiring, not the line items.
How we build
New features include the admin UI, the learner UI, the API, the reports, and the audit trail — in the same release. Nothing lands half-done.
Internationalization is not an afterthought. Chronos runs in multiple languages and locales from day one. The platform respects regional data residency requirements.
WCAG 2.1 AA is a baseline, not an aspiration. Keyboard navigation, screen-reader semantics, and color contrast are checked in CI.
AI is used for specific jobs: course authoring assistance, assessment scoring with rationale, predictive drop-off flagging. It is never used to replace the human review that compliance and hiring decisions require.
Chronos plays well with Okta, Azure AD, Zoom, Google Meet, Stripe, Paystack, and anything speaking SCIM, SAML, OAuth, or webhooks. Your identity provider and your calendar are your own.
The direction
We are building a workforce operating system — where a learner's path from applicant to credentialed professional is one coherent record, and the hiring team, the L&D team, and the compliance officer are all looking at the same underlying data.
The platform today has the three core modules — Learning, Hiring, Compliance — wired on a shared schema. The roadmap focuses on deepening each module and connecting them more tightly: hiring decisions that flow into onboarding paths, OJT progress that triggers LMS re-enrollments, compliance exports that assemble themselves.
We think this is the next decade of workforce infrastructure. The organizations that succeed in training, hiring, and credentialling the next generation of workers will need platforms that match how the work actually happens — not a patchwork of single-purpose tools.
Come help us build it.
What we support out of the box
SCORM
e-learning
xAPI
statements
SAML 2.0
SSO
SCIM 2.0
provisioning
RAPIDS
DOL
PIRL
ETA-9172
WCAG 2.1 AA
a11y
ICS
calendar
Webhooks
events
REST API
integration
Working on a workforce problem that Chronos might fit? We want to hear about it — even if we don't end up being the right answer.