§ The result
Korn Ferry leads Ceipal by 11 points.
Korn Ferry sits 11 points above Ceipal under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 35 — with Korn Ferry filed under Assessment and Ceipal under ATS-integrated. Korn Ferry leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Ceipal leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 30, Korn Ferry 58 — and at a 20% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Korn Ferry holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
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
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Korn Ferry under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Korn Ferry is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ceipal | Korn Ferry |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 1969 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Korn Ferry 58
5.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
18% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Korn Ferry 48
5.0 weighted points to Korn Ferry
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Korn Ferry 52
0.9 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Korn Ferry 52
0.7 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Korn Ferry 33
0.6 weighted points to Ceipal
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Korn Ferry 52
0.1 weighted points to Ceipal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -11.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -11.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Korn Ferry.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Korn Ferry | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 58 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 48 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 52 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 52 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 52 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 46 (F) | -11 | -11.6 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | Korn Ferry | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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