§ The result
4 points separate Paycom and Korn Ferry.
Paycom (ATS-integrated) edges Korn Ferry (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 50 to 46. Paycom leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Korn Ferry leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Korn Ferry 58, Paycom 68, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage Paycom holds across the 6 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
Paycom
Paycom is a single-database human capital management and payroll platform whose applicant tracking system automates recruiting with resume parsing, keyword/knockout candidate filtering, automated correspondence, generative job-description writing, and a command-driven AI data-query engine (IWant).
§ The record
Korn Ferry is filed under Assessment AI, Paycom 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 | Paycom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1969 | 1998 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · Paycom 68
2.0 weighted points to Paycom
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · Paycom 38
1.8 weighted points to Korn Ferry
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · Paycom 62
1.5 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Korn Ferry 25 · Paycom 30
0.8 weighted points to Paycom
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · Paycom 60
0.6 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · Paycom 38
0.6 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · Paycom 55
0.4 weighted points to Paycom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus Paycom.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | Paycom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 68 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 38 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 50 (F) | -4 | -4.0 |
§ 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 | Paycom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 1 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Paycom has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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