§ The result
Korn Ferry leads Zappyhire on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Korn Ferry sits 12 points above Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 34 — with Korn Ferry filed under Assessment and Zappyhire under Screening. Korn Ferry leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Zappyhire is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Korn Ferry leads is Human Oversight Design, Korn Ferry 52 to Zappyhire 50. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Korn Ferry 58, Zappyhire 30 — and at a 20% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Korn Ferry 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Korn Ferry is filed under Assessment AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Korn Ferry | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 1969 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Korn Ferry 58 · Zappyhire 30
5.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Korn Ferry 48 · Zappyhire 28
3.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Korn Ferry 52 · Zappyhire 42
1.5 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Korn Ferry 33 · Zappyhire 28
0.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Korn Ferry 52 · Zappyhire 45
0.6 weighted points to Korn Ferry
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Korn Ferry 52 · Zappyhire 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 +12.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Korn Ferry minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Korn Ferry | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 30 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 28 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 28 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 34 (F) | +12 | +12.1 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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