§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Korn Ferry on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR, filed under Screening, comes out 13 points above Korn Ferry, filed under Assessment: 59 against 46 under rubric v1.0. Korn Ferry is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Braintrust AIR takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Data Governance Disclosure, Braintrust AIR 56 to Korn Ferry 52. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Braintrust AIR 62, Korn Ferry 33) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Braintrust AIR 75, Korn Ferry 48), the second being 39% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
Vendor profile
Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry provides psychometric talent assessments (Korn Ferry Assess, the KF4D Four Dimensional assessment, KFALP leadership-potential assessment, and the Leadership Architect competency framework) used to evaluate candidates' personality, competencies, drivers, and cognitive ability for selection, promotion, and development decisions.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Korn Ferry under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Korn Ferry |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 1969 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Korn Ferry 48
4.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Korn Ferry 33
3.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Korn Ferry 25
1.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Korn Ferry 52
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Korn Ferry 52
0.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Korn Ferry 52
0.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +12.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Korn Ferry.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Korn Ferry | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 48 | +27 | +4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 33 | +29 | +3.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 52 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 46 (F) | +13 | +12.5 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Korn Ferry | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next