Galileo Jupiter Release — Engineered for Enterprise AI.

No. The Jupiter Release is not a new product — it is a major update to Galileo, following the same naming convention as previous releases (Mercury, Venus, Mars). Think of it like a significant operating system update: the platform you know is the same, but it has been substantially re-engineered under the hood and extended with powerful new capabilities.

Through MCP server and named Galileo Inside integrations, it is a best-in-class, platform-agnostic HR intelligence layer that can be embedded into the enterprise systems your workforce already uses.

ARC — Agent Ready Corpus — is the proprietary content architecture that powers Galileo Jupiter. It represents a complete re-engineering of how The Josh Bersin Company's research, data, and trusted content partner insights are structured, organized, and made accessible to AI.

ARC is also the foundational architecture that makes Galileo's MCP server capability possible — because the corpus is now structured for any LLM to access it intelligently, regardless of the platform.

ARC solves a fundamental challenge: large language models cannot reliably read traditional content formats like PDFs or large data files. Now, LLMs can more efficiently and accurately contextualize Galileo's expertise and align it to data available within an integrated platform.

Traditional content is difficult for AI models to interpret accurately. ARC is engineered for high-token efficiency and accuracy, significantly reducing the "noise" and hallucinations found in generic AI tools while ensuring that your AI agents reason from a verified, expert corpus.

By improving the accessibility and contextualization of the content, ARC provides responses and deliverables that are:

1. More accurate — Better retrieval of the right information and context helps deliver more relevant, reliable responses.

2. More productive — AI can find and use the most relevant information more efficiently, helping people reach better-informed decisions and take action faster.

3. More efficient — Galileo gets to the right information with less processing, delivering high-quality output more quickly and at lower token cost.

Galileo Inside integrations are purpose-built, technically aligned solutions that bring the Galileo Corpus natively into specific HCM and enterprise AI environments, so that users can access Galileo's trusted intelligence directly within the tools they already use every day — without needing to navigate to a separate platform.

The Jupiter Release includes named Galileo Inside integrations with a select group of enterprise partners, including Microsoft Copilot, Workday, HiBob, Gloat, and ServiceNow.

Each Galileo Inside integration is a unique, out-of-the-box solution with its own user experience, use cases, and purchasing pathway specific to that platform.

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, an open standard created by Anthropic that enables AI models to securely connect to external data sources and tools. It functions as a universal digital plug, allowing any compatible AI platform to call on Galileo's corpus for trusted HR, management, and leadership intelligence without having to ingest or replicate that content.

In practical terms, Galileo's MCP server works by loading the ARC-structured Galileo Corpus onto a server, which partner AI platforms can then query through APIs. When a user asks a question in their platform of choice, the MCP routing logic determines which responses should be grounded in Galileo's expertise, and retrieves the right content.

Data governance is a foundational design principle of Galileo, and the Jupiter Release strengthens this in several important ways.

1. Through ARC, the Galileo Corpus is now precision-engineered with semantic tagging and deep metadata labeling, which means the AI is given explicitly defined intent for every piece of content. This dramatically reduces AI drift, hallucination, and the risk of misrepresented information reaching end users.

2. The MCP architecture preserves a strict separation between Galileo's content and your organization's enterprise data — the two work together contextually, but Galileo's proprietary research remains entirely within our control and is never stored or replicated in the integrated environments.

Galileo is built from the ground up as an enterprise-grade, secure platform adhering to internationally recognized data privacy and security standards.

For tenant-level deployments through named integrations like Workday and Microsoft Copilot, enterprise administrators retain control over access permissions within their organization, ensuring that Galileo's intelligence is available only to those employees intended to receive it.

Enterprise security vetting, compliance documentation, and technical architecture details are available for organizations undergoing formal procurement and security review processes.

The Josh Bersin Company has achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for its Information Security Management System (ISMS). ISO 27001 is a globally recognized standard for information security management.

In addition, The Josh Bersin Company has successfully completed a SOC 2^® Type II examination. SOC 2 reports evaluate controls relevant to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

Through exclusive partnerships with world-class HR technology providers, Galileo users gain unprecedented access to verified data, frameworks, models, and content used by Josh Bersin Company analysts.

Equilar is the newest addition to the Galileo Trusted Content Partner roster, joining in the Jupiter Release. Equilar is a leading data company focused on executive compensation and board intelligence, providing comprehensive benchmarks on C-suite and senior leadership pay that are refreshed on a quarterly basis. Their addition to the Galileo Corpus addresses a meaningful gap that CHROs, total rewards leaders, and compensation teams have consistently sought: access to trusted, current, and authoritative data on executive pay.

Jupiter is designed to be the "Context Layer" of your enterprise agent strategy. Instead of adding another tool, it provides the clean, curated HR data (ARC) and orchestration framework needed to make your existing investments—like Microsoft Copilot or Workday—more intelligent and HR-specific.

The Jupiter Release arrives at a moment when the CHRO role is undergoing its most consequential transformation in a generation. A recent survey of nearly 200 CHROs found that 100% believe their role is fundamentally changing — from running HR processes and ensuring compliance to serving as an enterprise strategist and transformation leader.  Enterprise AI excellence has become the most consequential new responsibility for the CHRO, sitting squarely at the intersection of workforce readiness, workflow integration, governance maturity, and technology adoption.

For the CHRO, Galileo Jupiter is both a tool and a signal. As a tool, it extends trusted HR intelligence beyond the HR function itself — making it available to managers, employees, and leaders across the business in the platforms they already use. This directly supports the CHRO's mandate to democratize people expertise, reduce reliance on fragmented external consulting, and bring data-driven decision-making into the flow of daily work for every leader in the organization. 

As a signal, the Jupiter Release reinforces what JBC research makes clear: the CHRO must now act as the integrator of enterprise AI — aligning the priorities of the CEO, CIO, CFO, and COO into a coherent enterprise agenda and ensuring that strategy, technology, and operations converge through people.  Galileo Jupiter is designed to support that agenda — providing the research infrastructure, workflow integration, and governance architecture that CHROs need to lead AI transformation with confidence and credibility.