§ The result
Korn Ferry leads Personio by 6 points.
Korn Ferry scores 46 and Personio 40 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Korn Ferry leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Personio leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Korn Ferry 48, Personio 25 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Korn Ferry holds across the 4 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
Personio
Personio is a European cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized companies that combines an HRIS with recruiting/ATS, time tracking, payroll and an AI assistant, and is adding agentic AI candidate sourcing and application screening through its 2026 acquisition of aurio.
§ The record
Korn Ferry is filed under Assessment AI, Personio 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 | Personio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 1969 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · Personio 25
4.1 weighted points to Korn Ferry
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · Personio 40
3.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · Personio 48
1.8 weighted points to Personio
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Korn Ferry 25 · Personio 30
0.8 weighted points to Personio
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · Personio 48
0.5 weighted points to Korn Ferry
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · Personio 50
0.2 weighted points to Korn Ferry
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus Personio.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | Personio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 25 | +23 | +4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 48 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 40 (F) | +6 | +5.8 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | Personio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 8 | 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; Personio has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Personio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
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 Personio, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Personio last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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