Cornerstone OnDemand Implementation Services & Consulting | GroveDeck
An implementation your people never have to work around
When the first ninety days go right, your people find their training the first time and managers stop asking who’s enrolled. When they go wrong, everyone downstream pays: org structure that doesn’t match how the company works, permissions copied from a template, learning assignments nobody tested against real hires. The first build sets the ceiling on everything the platform does afterward.
We build Cornerstone with you from design through go-live and stay through launch. You get a system shaped around your org, your compliance requirements, and your data feeds, documented so the knowledge lives in the platform, not in one person’s head. Nothing resets with turnover.
What GroveDeck Logic does on an implementation
Your people wait weeks for a working platform, not quarters. GroveDeck Logic builds the pieces in parallel where a manual build works through them one at a time: org structure, permissions, groups, learning assignments, curricula, email notifications, reporting templates. A Certified Cornerstone Expert reviews every decision and owns the go/no-go. Nothing reaches your live system without a person signing off, so what launches is what an expert stands behind.
What’s included
A system shaped to your org
Your people move through a platform that matches how the company actually works, not a template: org structure, permissions, groups, and learning assignments built around your reality.
Hire dates and role changes that just arrive
New hires enrolled before day one and role changes that flow through on their own. We map and prove your Workday, SAP, ADP, SSO, and content-library data feeds before go-live. See Integrations.
Knowledge that lives in the platform
Your team runs on the guides we write: admin runbooks, learner-facing guides, and every decision recorded. The knowledge lives in the platform, not in one person’s head, so nothing resets with turnover.
How an implementation runs
Discovery and design. We work alongside your team to map your org structure, compliance requirements, and data feeds into a blueprint you approve before anything gets built. A five-business-day written assessment scopes it.
Build. Logic constructs the platform in parallel while Certified Cornerstone Experts review each piece against the blueprint: org structure, permissions, learning assignments, curricula, notifications, reporting.
Prove it in staging. Your team does UAT on a working system before anyone else touches it. Learning assignments tested against real training records, data feeds confirmed in both directions, nothing left to find out in production.
Go-live. Learners land in a system that works on day one, with the guides your admins need delivered alongside it. Cutover runs off-hours with Certified Cornerstone Experts present, on a clean go/no-go.
Launch support. We partner with your team through week ten. Logic watches around the clock and catches what only surfaces once real learners are in the platform, so your people don’t hit it first.
The build is weeks, not months. How many weeks depends on org complexity, how many data feeds connect, and how much history comes with you. The assessment gives you a real number before anything starts.
Three ways organizations handle an implementation
| GroveDeck | Big consultancy | Internal team only | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornerstone depth | All we do. Nothing else. | One of dozens of LMS projects | Learning the platform while building it |
| Timeline | Weeks; Logic builds in parallel | Quarters, tied to a project plan | Six months or more around the day job |
| Proven before launch | Your team runs UAT on a working system before cutover | UAT checklist near the end | Whatever there’s time for |
| After go-live | Logic watching around the clock through week ten | Closes at go-live; issues surface after they leave | Back to the day job |
| Documentation | Guides and runbooks included; knowledge stays in the platform | A binder at handoff, stale by the next release | Written if anyone finds the time |
| Contract | Fixed-scope project. Month to month after launch. | Six-figure scope; change orders for the rest | No external spend, but the longest path to go-live |
| Who’s accountable | The Certified Expert who signed off on the go-live | An account manager and a ticket queue | Whoever inherited it after go-live |
Questions we hear most
We already bought Cornerstone. Doesn’t Cornerstone implement it?
Cornerstone’s own onboarding gets the system provisioned and the basics turned on. The design decisions that determine whether your people find their training and managers see who’s enrolled, org structure, permissions, learning assignments, data feeds, are yours to make. That’s the part we own with you.
How long does an implementation actually take?
The build is weeks, not months. A five-business-day written assessment gives you a real timeline based on your org complexity, how many data feeds connect, and data volume before anything starts.
Can you rescue an implementation that’s already gone sideways?
Yes. Whether it stalled mid-project or went live broken, we audit what exists, keep what’s sound, and rebuild what isn’t. Living with the workarounds for another year usually costs more.
We’re coming from another LMS. Is that a different service?
The implementation covers your new system. Bringing history from Saba, SumTotal, or another LMS is Migrations, and the two run together as one project when you need both.
What happens after launch?
Managed administration keeps the same people running the platform month to month, so you work with the team that built it week after week. No lock-in.
What we also do
Coming off Saba or SumTotal? See Migrations. Want the platform run for you after go-live? See Managed administration. Need courses built for launch? See Content development.
Start on Cornerstone the way you mean to continue
Certified Cornerstone Experts working on your implementation within ten business days of signing. Fixed-scope project, and we see it through launch, not just to go-live. The same people stay with you after.