Workera Launches Talk for Sage

Workera, a skills verification platform provider, has released Talk for Sage, its artificial intelligence mentor agent, bringing real-time, voice-driven skills verification to the flow of work. Talk for Sage turns natural conversation into skill assessments, allowing people to demonstrate what they know out loud, receive adaptive follow-ups, and get measured on how well they've applied their skills.

Sage's voice mode was engineered to feel like a trusted mentor with natural turn-taking, adaptive follow-ups, and low cognitive load. Every voice exchange is powered by the same deep skill-mapping and psychometric rigor that drives Sage's text-based assessments, tuned for verbal interaction so learners can think out loud and demonstrate reasoning in their own words.

Sage maintains fluid interaction with sub-1.2 second latency and supports multiple languages. It chunks conversations into skill-based challenges, dynamically adjusts difficulty based on performance, and awards partial credit to capture nuance.

"The future of skills verification is multi-modal and conversational," said Kian Katanforoosh, CEO of Workera, in a statement. "With Talk, Sage listens like a great mentor, probing, adapting, and recognizing partial mastery in real time. It captures the thinking behind the answer, not just the final result, so every learner gets a fair chance to show what they can do and every leader gets sharper, more predictive talent data."