§ The result
HiPeople leads Korn Ferry on all 7 criteria.
HiPeople finishes 15 points clear of Korn Ferry inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 61 (D) against 46 (F). HiPeople leads every one of the 7 criteria, Korn Ferry none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Article 11 Technical Documentation, HiPeople 62 to Korn Ferry 58. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiPeople 84, Korn Ferry 48 — and at an 18% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
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
HiPeople and Korn Ferry are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiPeople | Korn Ferry |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 1969 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · Korn Ferry 48
6.5 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · Korn Ferry 33
3.2 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiPeople 35 · Korn Ferry 25
1.5 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · Korn Ferry 52
1.2 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · Korn Ferry 52
1.1 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · Korn Ferry 52
0.9 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · Korn Ferry 58
0.8 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus Korn Ferry.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | Korn Ferry | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 48 | +36 | +6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 33 | +27 | +3.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 52 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 46 (F) | +15 | +15.2 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | Korn Ferry | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 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 domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 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 HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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