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The Skills Economy
Needs a Trust Layer.
We Are Building It.

Professional credentials are fundamentally untrustworthy. Billions of hiring decisions are made on data that can't be verified, doesn't travel, and isn't understood across borders. Skillumina is the infrastructure that fixes this.

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✓ Delaware C-Corp
✓ Open Standards Architecture
✓ Fairfax, VA · USA
THE CLAIM ! Self-Reported Unverifiable · Fraud-prone 44% misrepresent credentials SKILLUMINA Verification Engine AI Validation Crypto Signing Universal Translation THE PROOF Cryptographically Signed Portable · Permanent VSA Verified Skill Asset

Unverified Claim  →  Verification  →  Trusted Proof

$8.5T
Annual global skills mismatch cost (Korn Ferry 2025)
63%
Employers cite skills gaps as their #1 growth barrier (WEF 2025)
44%
Job applicants misrepresent qualifications — AI made it undetectable
450M
EU citizens require Digital Identity Wallets by December 2026

The Problem

The Global Skills Economy Runs
on Unverified Data

Every credential is self-reported. Every taxonomy is incompatible with the next. Every background check is manual, expensive, and temporary. The infrastructure for trust simply does not exist — yet.

$21B
The Credential Fraud Ecosystem
AI generates convincing fake résumés instantly. State-sponsored schemes have placed fraudulent workers inside hundreds of the world's largest companies. 71% of HR professionals have encountered fabricated credentials — and the problem is accelerating.
30+
Disconnected Platforms, Zero Portability
A professional's credentials are scattered across LinkedIn, GitHub, certification registries, and learning platforms — all disconnected. Every career move triggers full re-verification from scratch. 2–4 weeks. $150–$400 per check. Over and over.
6
Incompatible Frameworks, No Translation
O*NET, ESCO, SFIA, NICE, ISCO, NACE — six major skills frameworks with no universal translation layer. A cybersecurity credential in the U.S. cannot be compared to one in the EU. Cross-border talent mobility is structurally broken.
818K
Government Data Is Failing Too
The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised 2024 employment data by 818,000 jobs — the largest single error since 2009. Trillions of dollars in workforce strategy are built on data that is systematically, demonstrably wrong.

What We're Building

Infrastructure, Not Another Tool

Every hiring platform, HR system, and AI agent in the world today sits on top of credentials that cannot be verified. We are building the foundational layer that makes verification possible, portable, and permanent — not as a feature, but as infrastructure.

Payments needed Stripe. Cloud computing needed AWS. The skills economy needs a trust primitive. That is what we are building.
For Professionals
Carry your verified credentials anywhere. One proof, every employer, every jurisdiction. No re-verification. No delays.
For Employers & Platforms
Eliminate fraud risk and verification costs. Hire on verified skills, not unverified claims. AI-ready data your systems can trust.
For the Ecosystem
Open standards foundation that every platform can build on. The trust layer that makes the entire skills economy more reliable.

Why Now

The Regulatory Window
Is Open. Briefly.

Global governments and standards bodies have converged on digital identity and skills verification in 2025–2026. The entity that establishes the dominant implementation becomes the standard.

May 2025
W3C VC 2.0 — Production Standard Live
The global cryptographic credential standard published. Skillumina's architecture is built natively on it.
August 2025
NIST SP 800-63-4 Finalized
U.S. federal digital identity guidelines updated, creating alignment for government procurement of skills infrastructure.
August 2026
EU AI Act — High-Risk Hiring Classification
AI systems used in hiring must use verified, auditable data. Unverified skills data becomes legally inadmissible in the EU.
December 2026
EU eIDAS 2.0 — 450M Digital Wallets Mandated
EU law requires a Digital Identity Wallet for every EU citizen. Skillumina is designed for Day-1 compatibility.
$52B+
Combined addressable market across credential verification, digital identity compliance, and skills assessment — growing at 13%+ per year
"The window to establish dominant implementation of these global standards is approximately 18–24 months wide. The entity that builds there first becomes the standard — not just a product."
80%
Of organizations deploying AI agents for hiring and workforce planning in 2026 — every one of them needs a verified skills layer to function reliably

About Skillumina

Built by Someone Who Lived the Problem

Skillumina, Inc. was founded in 2026 in Fairfax, Virginia. We are building the verification infrastructure the global skills economy has needed for decades — not as a feature of an existing platform, but as the foundational layer everything else builds on.

FVM
Firdovsi V. Mutallimov
Founder & CEO
18 years building labor market infrastructure for governments, development finance institutions, and international workforce agencies across three continents. Not a researcher who studied this problem — a practitioner who operated inside it at the systems level.
Delaware C-Corp Incorporated
Skillumina, Inc. · Mercury Banking Active
Built on Open Standards
Designed around W3C VC 2.0, eIDAS 2.0, and NIST frameworks
Pre-Seed · Actively Raising
$500K–$750K · Targeting Series A in 18 months
Privacy-First Architecture
Designed to meet GDPR principles from the ground up

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