Deloitte Launches Scout AI Learning Assistant to Personalize Development and Accelerate Upskilling
Deloitte launches Scout, an AI assistant that personalizes learning and speeds upskilling for project needs. Part of Project 120, it adds insights and social learning next.
Deloitte Launches Scout: An AI Learning Assistant for Personalized Professional Development
Deloitte introduced Scout, an AI-driven learning assistant built to personalize development for its US workforce. The goal is simple: make relevant learning easier to find, faster to act on, and more connected to real project demands.
For leaders in education, IT, and development, Scout is a visible move toward continuous upskilling at scale-pairing AI recommendations with human-centered growth.
What Scout Does
Scout curates learning based on role, prior activity, content preferences, and development goals. It answers learning questions in seconds, adapts to each person's style, and keeps momentum with timely nudges.
It supports key career moments-new roles, expanded responsibilities, project-specific upskilling-and feeds predictive insights to help teams plan skills needs across channels.
Key Features
- Personalized learning experiences grounded in role, history, and goals
- Fast, actionable answers with adaptive responses and reminders
- Support for upskilling during transitions and project onboarding
- Large-scale upskilling and reskilling with predictive learning insights
- Encourages professionals to own their development and build leadership capacity
Why It Matters for Education, IT, and Development Leaders
- Closes the gap between strategy and execution by delivering relevant learning at the moment of need
- Improves speed-to-skill for projects and emerging capabilities
- Combines technical learning with core human skills-communication, collaboration, adaptability, curiosity
- Creates data signals for workforce planning and skills forecasting
Inside the Investment: Project 120
Scout is part of Project 120, Deloitte's $1.4B investment in its people. Current functionality centers on content delivery and adaptive pathways; future phases are planned to connect people to peers based on skills, learning needs, and project demands.
The roadmap includes features that promote social learning and peer-to-peer collaboration-linking individuals and teams to accelerate progress together.
What's Next
- Deeper social learning and communities of practice
- Peer discovery based on shared skills and immediate project requirements
- Richer analytics to inform role transitions, workforce mobility, and capability building
Practical Moves You Can Make Now
- Define role-based skills and outcomes before content mapping; let those drive recommendations
- Blend human skills with technical tracks in every learning path
- Use short feedback loops: in-product prompts, weekly nudges, and quick post-learning check-ins
- Instrument your learning stack for predictive signals (skills demand, completion velocity, project readiness)
- Pilot with high-impact roles first (delivery leads, tech architects, data engineers) and scale from proven wins
About Deloitte
Deloitte provides audit, consulting, tax, and advisory services to many of the world's most recognized brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500 and more than 8,500 U.S.-based private companies. The network spans 150+ countries and roughly 460,000 professionals worldwide. Learn more at deloitte.com.
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