About · The Honest Experiment
The research I wish I’d had
The Honest Experiment is independent research on the technology behind every stage of the employee journey — hiring, learning and development, talent marketplaces, strategic workforce planning, and everything across the Hire-to-Retire cycle. No vendor spin. No sponsored verdicts. Just tested, unfiltered information to help you decide which platforms fit, and how to actually use them.
Read the honest angle
The starting point
Why this exists
I started this because I’ve sat where you’re sitting. I’ve chosen these platforms, implemented them, and lived with the results — the ones that transformed how a business worked, and the ones that quietly failed to deliver what the sales deck promised. That honest truth rarely makes it into a case study. This is where it does.
The practitioner
Who’s behind it
Priyanku — Founder, The Honest Experiment
My background spans operations, business, technology, and HR transformation — building Centres of Excellence and end-to-end processes from scratch, using experience and technology as the connectors that make them work. I’ve delivered these systems successfully for real organisations, and I’ve learned what works, and what doesn’t, the hard way: through practice, not theory.
Recommendations
In their words
In the early phases, he led the skills architecture work — partnering with the business to identify and map skills across the job catalogue, rigorously testing technology solutions, and evaluating the relevance of AI-driven outputs … What stands out most is Priyanku’s combination of technical depth and people skills.
He has a wealth of knowledge and experience in skills architecture and couples this with a super engaging approach to stakeholder management. … He led skills mapping for all jobs and displayed great understanding of how skills and job architecture need to interact …
Pri helped drive a change in approach with the Tech Academy, where it became less of a centralised development capability and more of a part of our “learning DNA” … If you ever get a chance to work with Pri, take it!
He consistently demonstrated a genuine desire to make things better, not only for the business but also for the people involved.
With this skillset and mindset, Priyanku significantly contributes to the digital transformation of Maersk into a tech product management company …
On Independence
I’m not paid by the platforms I write about. My only loyalty is to the reader trying to make a good decision.
What you get
I don’t sell solutions. I map pathways.
Every piece of research gives you the honest picture — the strengths, the trade-offs, the “it depends” — so you can choose the path that fits your organisation, not mine.