§ The result
3 points separate Lever and Korn Ferry.
Lever (ATS-integrated) edges Korn Ferry (Assessment) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 49 to 46. Lever leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Korn Ferry leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Korn Ferry 33, Lever 45, 12% weight), but it accounts for only 30% of the weighted advantage Lever holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
§ The record
Korn Ferry is filed under Assessment AI, Lever under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Korn Ferry is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Korn Ferry | Lever |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1969 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 20% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · Lever 45
1.4 weighted points to Lever
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · Lever 52
1.2 weighted points to Korn Ferry
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · Lever 42
1.1 weighted points to Korn Ferry
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Korn Ferry 25 · Lever 32
1.1 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · Lever 60
1.0 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · Lever 58
0.9 weighted points to Lever
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · Lever 58
0.5 weighted points to Lever
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus Lever.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | Lever | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 45 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 49 (F) | -3 | -2.5 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | Lever | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Lever has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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