A majority of HR professionals struggle to find satisfactory tools for managing the development of their employees. Costs that are too high, deployment timelines stretching over months, poor ergonomics, insufficient transparency on how products evolve: the friction points are numerous and well-known. It is precisely to address these needs that Klara was launched in 2020 by Romain Etay and Nazim Chibane, two former Bpifrance employees. Incubated at Station F, the largest incubator in Europe, the platform now claims over 10,000 daily users and a 70% time saving for HR teams. Here is why.

Talent Management: Real Challenges, Often Inadequate Tools

Talent management is a priority for organisations that want to steer the development of their employees, structure career pathways and recognise internal skills. Yet HR teams frequently struggle to find solutions equal to these ambitions.

Friction Points That Hamper HR Teams' Daily Work

Four obstacles recur systematically when HR professionals evaluate the tools available on the market: costs that are too high, considerable deployment delays (developing in-house tools can take up to 10 months), poor ergonomics that hamper adoption, and a lack of transparency about how products evolve over time. These friction points consume time, energy and budget, often at the expense of what matters most: concretely supporting employees in their skills development.

The direct consequence is that many organisations find themselves managing their development processes with tools not designed for the purpose, or deferring HR projects for lack of a solution suited to their size and means.

Klara: A Platform Built to Bridge These Gaps

Launched in 2020 and born from the Station F ecosystem, Klara was built in direct response to these frustrations identified in the field. The SaaS platform offers an affordable cost, deployment measured in weeks rather than months, an intuitive interface and regular communication on product updates, so that teams can follow how the platform evolves and anticipate changes in their practice.

The 70% time saving measured for HR teams reflects the concrete impact of this simplification: less time spent managing manual processes, more time available to support employees and make HR development an operational reality.

What Klara Concretely Brings to HR Teams and Managers

Klara's features respond to specific needs identified in the day-to-day work of teams managing employee follow-up.

An Operational Skills Mapping

Activating employees' skills and obtaining an operational map of them is one of Klara's core value-added features. The platform offers structured follow-up campaigns, visualisation of skills progression through charts, fully customisable forms and real-time visibility over each employee's progress.

These features serve both HR teams steering development programmes and managers supporting their teams on a daily basis. Each stakeholder has access to the data they need to make informed decisions: which skills to strengthen, which objectives to set, which employees need additional support.

A Solution That Adapts to All Types of Organisations

Klara was designed to be accessible to different types of organisations, not solely to large structures with substantial HR teams. This accessibility is reflected in the pricing, the speed of deployment and an interface designed to be taken up without lengthy training.

The stated ambition is to become the leading talent management platform in Europe, continuing to build alongside clients a solution adapted to operational realities. A continuously evolving solution, whose changes are communicated to users to ensure continuity in their experience.

The Klara Philosophy: Employee Engagement as a True Asset

Beyond features and performance indicators, Klara carries a vision. Romain Etay, co-founder, puts it directly: "At Klara, we believe that the wealth of an organisation lies in the engagement of its employees."

Giving Employees Visibility Over Their Own Progression

Klara's approach rests on the idea of giving employees an active role in their professional pathway. By giving them access to clear data on their skills, their progression and their objectives, the platform allows them to take ownership of their development. Employees can choose the way of working that suits them within a framework that helps them progress, rather than simply following a programme imposed upon them.

Continuous Improvement of the Employee Experience

All of Klara's solutions are built around a common denominator: contributing to the improvement of the employee experience and well-being at work through talent management, in all its forms. The talent management web platform equips HR teams and structures their employee programmes, so that every development initiative produces measurable effects on engagement and collective performance.