§ The result
Sapia.ai leads Korn Ferry on all 7 criteria.
Sapia.ai sits 10 points above Korn Ferry under rubric v1.0, 56 against 46, with both filed under Assessment. Sapia.ai is ahead of Korn Ferry on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at Korn Ferry 48 to Sapia.ai 52. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Korn Ferry 33, Sapia.ai 50) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Korn Ferry 58, Sapia.ai 70), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage Sapia.ai holds across the 7 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
Sapia.ai
Structured, text-based chat interview that scores candidates on personality (HEXACO) and competency traits - with no video, audio, or demographic data used.
§ The record
Korn Ferry and Sapia.ai 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 | Sapia.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 1969 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · Sapia.ai 70
2.4 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · Sapia.ai 50
2.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Korn Ferry 25 · Sapia.ai 35
1.5 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · Sapia.ai 62
1.5 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · Sapia.ai 62
1.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · Sapia.ai 62
0.8 weighted points to Sapia.ai
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · Sapia.ai 52
0.7 weighted points to Sapia.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus Sapia.ai.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | Sapia.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 50 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 56 (F) | -10 | -10.2 |
§ 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 | Sapia.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources 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; Sapia.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sapia.ai 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 Sapia.ai, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sapia.ai last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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