§ The result
Korn Ferry leads HeroHunt.ai by 16 points.
Korn Ferry finishes 16 points clear of HeroHunt.ai under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 30 — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Korn Ferry: Korn Ferry is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and HeroHunt.ai on Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (HeroHunt.ai 20, Korn Ferry 58) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage Korn Ferry holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HeroHunt.ai
HeroHunt.ai's AI Recruiter (launched as Uwi) searches a claimed 1 billion+ professional profiles, scores and ranks them against a job description with language models, and sends AI-personalised outreach to the candidates a user approves.
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
HeroHunt.ai is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Korn Ferry under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Korn Ferry is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HeroHunt.ai | Korn Ferry |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 1969 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · Korn Ferry 58
7.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
18% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · Korn Ferry 48
6.8 weighted points to Korn Ferry
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · Korn Ferry 52
1.1 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · Korn Ferry 33
0.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · Korn Ferry 52
0.4 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · Korn Ferry 52
0.3 weighted points to Korn Ferry
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · Korn Ferry 25
0.3 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -15.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus Korn Ferry.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | Korn Ferry | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 58 | -38 | -7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 48 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 25 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 33 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 46 (F) | -16 | -15.8 |
§ 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 | HeroHunt.ai | 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% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HeroHunt.ai has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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; some documentation or audit rows for HeroHunt.ai 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 HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next