§ The result
Korn Ferry and TalentLens tie at 46.
Korn Ferry and TalentLens tie at 46 under rubric v1.0 inside the Assessment cohort, arriving there from different criteria. Korn Ferry leads 4 of the 7 criteria and TalentLens 3, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Korn Ferry 58, TalentLens 52) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 56% of the weighted advantage Korn Ferry holds across the 4 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
TalentLens
TalentLens, Pearson's workplace psychometrics brand, publishes the Watson-Glaser critical-thinking test, Raven's Adaptive, BMCT-II and DAT Next Generation, which candidates take online and which are scored automatically against norm groups to produce percentile-based reports for hiring and development.
§ The record
Korn Ferry and TalentLens 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 | TalentLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 1969 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · TalentLens 52
1.2 weighted points to Korn Ferry
15% weight · 49% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Korn Ferry 25 · TalentLens 30
0.8 weighted points to TalentLens
12% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · TalentLens 57
0.6 weighted points to TalentLens
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · TalentLens 45
0.5 weighted points to Korn Ferry
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · TalentLens 58
0.5 weighted points to TalentLens
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · TalentLens 50
0.3 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · TalentLens 32
0.1 weighted points to Korn Ferry
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus TalentLens.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | TalentLens | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 57 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 32 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 46 (F) | - | +0.3 |
§ 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 | TalentLens | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 5 | 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; TalentLens has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for TalentLens sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for TalentLens, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TalentLens last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next