Revelio Labs has been positioned as a Potential Leader in the 2026 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent & People Success, moving from the Potential Challenger zone in 2025. Fosway Group, Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst, published the analysis on October 15, 2026. Revelio Labs is assessed as a Specialist in Skills & Workforce Intelligence, with an Accelerating Trajectory and a Lower Total Cost of Ownership.
| Dimension | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Fosway 9-Grid™ Zone | Potential Challenger | Potential Leader |
| Potential | Mid | Higher |
What the move means
The Fosway 9-Grid™ places each vendor in a Lower, Mid, or Higher band for Potential and for Performance. Moving from the Potential Challenger Zone to the Potential Leader Zone means Fosway now places Revelio Labs in the Higher band for Potential, which refers to the solution’s scope and sophistication.
Fosway describes the Potential Leader Zone as sophisticated solutions well suited to complex organizations. That is the customer Revelio Labs is built for: enterprise HR, people analytics, and strategy teams that need workforce data across companies, occupations, skills, and geographies.
Fosway also rates Revelio Labs’ Trajectory as Accelerating. Trajectory is Fosway’s view of a vendor’s direction of travel relative to its own position and to the market as a whole.
Revelio Labs' Total Cost of Ownership is in the Lower band. Fosway measures this as the full cost of acquiring, implementing, and operating a solution, typically over a three-year period. For enterprise teams, that means sophisticated workforce intelligence without a large internal team to operate it.
"Labour market disruption is here to stay, and enterprise organisations must look to leverage their understanding of the workforce to successfully transition into the future of work," said David Perring, Chief Insights Officer of Fosway Group. "Revelio Labs is part of a cluster of solutions accelerating in this 9-Grid™ who are becoming increasingly influential in strategic workforce intelligence and workforce planning, and it has been named a Potential Leader in this year's 9-Grid™ for Talent and People Success."
How the Fosway 9-Grid™ works
Fosway assesses vendors on five dimensions: Performance, Potential, Presence, Total Cost of Ownership, and Trajectory. The research draws on Fosway’s Corporate Research Network of more than 250 organizations, most of them enterprises headquartered in Europe. The 2026 Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent & People Success covers 40 vendors. Fosway’s model treats every Zone as valuable, because the right choice depends on each buyer’s needs, budget, and complexity.
Three market trends in Fosway’s 2026 analysis
Fosway’s report describes the Talent & People Success market as a whole. Three of its findings match what we see in our own data. The connections to Revelio Labs below are ours.
Growth is shown in workforce intelligence. More than 40% of HR teams say economic pressure has significantly affected their budgets, according to the Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent & People Success. Even so, Fosway reports the strongest vendor growth in talent intelligence and workforce transformation, where specialists fill gaps that core HR suites have left open.
Tasks come before skills. Fosway finds that 62% of buyers are committed to becoming skills-based organizations, but only 17% say they are one today. Its analysis argues that understanding AI’s impact on the workforce “is about tasks first and skills second.” Revelio Labs takes the same view. Jobs are bundles of work activities, and skills are attributes of the people who do them, so our taxonomies measure AI exposure at the activity level.
AI interoperability is becoming a requirement. Fosway’s analysis says secure connection through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is potentially now non-negotiable for future HR system selections. Revelio Labs data is available through an MCP connector, so teams can query workforce data from the AI tools they already use.
What this means for enterprise teams
Revelio Labs gives enterprise teams one source for hiring, attrition, compensation, skills, and workforce composition across companies, occupations, and geographies. Teams use it to benchmark against peers, plan workforce changes, and measure how AI exposure is shifting the work inside their organizations.
The full Fosway 9-Grid™ for Talent & People Success is available to download from Fosway Group.
Talk to our team to see how Revelio Labs data fits your workforce planning.
About the Fosway 9-Grid™
Fosway Group is Europe’s #1 HR industry analyst. The Fosway 9-Grid™ provides a unique assessment of the principal learning and talent supply options available to organisations in EMEA. The analysis is based on extensive independent research and insights from Fosway’s Corporate Research Network of over 250 organisations, including BP, HSBC, PwC, Sanofi, Shell, and Vodafone.
Visit the Fosway website at www.fosway.com for more information on Fosway Group’s research and services.