§ The result
1 point separates Hogan Assessments and Talkpush.
Hogan Assessments (Assessment) edges Talkpush (Screening) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 47 to 46. Hogan Assessments leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while Talkpush leads 3, including Post-Market Monitoring. FRIA Support is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Hogan Assessments 36, Talkpush 27 — and at a 15% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage Hogan Assessments holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Hogan Assessments
Hogan Assessments provides science-based personality assessments - chiefly the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), Hogan Development Survey (HDS), and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) - used to predict workplace performance for employee selection and development.
Vendor profile
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
Hogan Assessments is filed under Assessment AI, Talkpush under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Hogan Assessments | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | HK |
| Founded | 1987 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 29% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Hogan Assessments 36 · Talkpush 27
1.3 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
15% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Hogan Assessments 52 · Talkpush 44
1.2 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Hogan Assessments 40 · Talkpush 46
0.7 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Hogan Assessments 52 · Talkpush 56
0.5 weighted points to Talkpush
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Hogan Assessments 50 · Talkpush 52
0.4 weighted points to Talkpush
18% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Hogan Assessments 44 · Talkpush 42
0.4 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Hogan Assessments 62 · Talkpush 60
0.2 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Hogan Assessments minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | Hogan Assessments | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 42 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 27 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 44 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 56 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 46 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 46 (F) | +1 | +1.5 |
§ 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 | Hogan Assessments | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 21 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Hogan Assessments has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Hogan Assessments, across 1 distinct source domain, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Hogan Assessments last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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