§ The result
Korn Ferry leads Pulsifi by 13 points.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Assessment entries Korn Ferry and Pulsifi at 46 and 33, a gap of 13 points. Korn Ferry leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Pulsifi leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Korn Ferry 58, Pulsifi 30) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage Korn Ferry holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
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
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
§ The record
Korn Ferry and Pulsifi 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 | Korn Ferry | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 1969 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · Pulsifi 30
5.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · Pulsifi 20
5.0 weighted points to Korn Ferry
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · Pulsifi 40
1.8 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · Pulsifi 28
0.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · Pulsifi 46
0.5 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · Pulsifi 55
0.4 weighted points to Pulsifi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +13.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 30 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 20 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 28 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 46 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 33 (F) | +13 | +13.2 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 7 | Sources 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; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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