Talview
AI-powered hiring and exam-integrity platform spanning video interviewing, skills assessments, identity verification, and AI proctoring.
HireAIScore rates Talview 42 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed June 7, 2026. Talview ranks 19 of 31 vendors rated in Video interview AI, against a category average of 45. That score is drawn from 17 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Talview — 11 with a cited source, 6 recording that nothing was located.
§ 01 - Company facts
- Legal name
- Talview Inc.
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- United States · US
- Pricing tier
- Enterprise
- Market side
- Employer-side (AEDT)
- Categories
- Video interviewAssessmentScreening
- Website
- talview.com
These are company details, not findings. They are editable by a verified representative and carry no weight in the score, which is built only from the cited evidence below.
§ 02 - Score breakdown
§ Score breakdown
Category scoring
Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.
- 01
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Weight 20%50
+10.0 · category avg 48
- 02
Bias Audit Transparency
Weight 18%38
+6.8 · category avg 41
- 03
FRIA Support
Weight 15%25
+3.8 · category avg 31
- 04
Data Governance Disclosure
Weight 15%48
+7.2 · category avg 52
- 05
Human Oversight Design
Weight 12%55
+6.6 · category avg 56
- 06
Post-Market Monitoring
Weight 12%32
+3.8 · category avg 37
- 07
Customer Documentation
Weight 8%52
+4.2 · category avg 57
Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 31 Video interview AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.
§ 03 - Strongest · weakest
Strongest category
Human Oversight Design
Raw score 55 · contributes 6.6 to total.
55 against a 56 category average
Weakest category
FRIA Support
Raw score 25 · contributes 3.8 to total.
25 against a 31 category average
§ 04 - Cited evidence
Download diligence record→§ Evidence
Cited per category
Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence.
Evidence ledger
- Items
- 17
- Documentation
- 8
- Public statement
- 3
- Absence
- 6
- With a source URL
- 11 of 17
- Source hostnames
- 1
- Fewest items
- 1
- FRIA Support
These figures measure how thoroughly Talview was reviewed, not how Talview performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
2 items50
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Ethical AI Practices page setting out fairness, explainability, human-oversight, and 'locked model' principles, with no model cards or technical pack.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedNo ISO 42001, model cards, system cards, or instructions-for-use located on talview.com (Trust Center, Ethical AI, Seven-Layer Security pages).
Bias Audit Transparency
2 items38
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Claims 'third-party audits to ensure impartiality' and continuous fairness-metric monitoring, but names no auditor and links no report.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedNo downloadable NYC LL 144 bias audit located (talview.com, ACLU LL144 tracker, auditor-specific searches).
FRIA Support
1 item25
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedtalview.com Trust Center, Ethical AI, and Privacy Policy contain no EU AI Act / Article 26-27 references, No FRIA template located.
Data Governance Disclosure
4 items48
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Trust Center listing GDPR, PDPA, CCPA, LGPD, EEOC, and ISO 27001 compliance, with no downloadable certificates.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
States biometric/behavioral data is kept only for a limited duration then auto-deleted, with US/EU/Australia hosting and pre-presentation anonymization.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Privacy Policy enumerating collected data (biometrics, government ID, A/V recordings, screen captures) and Microsoft face APIs.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedNo published subprocessor list, linked DPA, data-exclusion list, or downloadable SOC 2 / ISO 27001 report located.
Human Oversight Design
2 items55
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
States AI is designed to 'support, not supplant human discernment,' with explainability summaries available to candidates, admins, and recruiters.
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
March 2024 blog describing human proctors reviewing AI-flagged anomalies contextually rather than AI deciding alone.
https://www.talview.com/blog/ensuring-fairness-talviews-proctoring-solution-and-the-role-of-ai
Post-Market Monitoring
2 items32
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Privacy contact (privacy@talview.com) provided, but no dedicated security-disclosure or incident-reporting channel.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedNo public status/uptime page (status.talview.com does not resolve), No model-update changelog or vulnerability-disclosure channel located.
Customer Documentation
4 items52
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Product-security page describing seven proctoring-integrity layers.
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Feb 2021 self-declared WCAG 2.0 accessibility compliance announcement.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Company/product overview page describing the end-to-end hiring-and-proctoring platform and AI agents.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedNo deployer/compliance guidance, linked DPA, or NYC LL 144 / EU AI Act customer guidance located.
§ 05 - Editorial notes
Company overview
Talview Inc. is a US-headquartered (San Mateo, CA) AI hiring and proctoring vendor founded in 2012 as Interview Master and restructured under its current name in 2017, with major operations in Bangalore. Its platform spans video interviewing, assessments, identity verification, and remote/AI proctoring, marketed around two agentic products -"Alvy," an AI proctor for exam integrity, and "Ivy," an AI interviewer - alongside a "Seven-Layer Security Framework."
Regulatory exposure
Talview sits squarely in the high-risk zone of both the EU AI Act (Annex III employment use) and US AEDT regimes: it scores, screens, and ranks candidates and runs biometric identity and behaviour analysis during exams. That biometric proctoring layer adds Illinois BIPA and EU biometric-data exposure on top of NYC LL 144, Colorado, and Illinois AI-hiring rules. Despite this, Talview publishes no NYC LL 144 bias-audit summary, no EU AI Act deployer guidance or FRIA materials, and no ISO 42001 / model-card documentation - its public AI-governance posture rests almost entirely on a single "Ethical AI Practices" page and a Trust Center that lists security certifications without downloadable evidence.
Path to a higher score
The fastest credibility gains would be (a) commissioning and publicly posting an independent, downloadable NYC LL 144 bias audit from a recognised auditor, renewed annually; (b) replacing the unnamed "third-party audits" claims with named, dated, downloadable reports and a self-serve Trust Center that gates the actual SOC 2 / ISO 27001 certificates; and (c) shipping deployer-facing artifacts - a linked DPA and subprocessor list, an EU AI Act instructions-for-use page, explicit training-data and exclusion statements, and a public status/incident channel.
§ Regulatory frame
What applies to video interview ai.
The most heavily-regulated category. NYC LL 144 has applied since 2023; EU AI Act Annex III §4 treats the assessment layer as high-risk; Mobley v. Workday is shaping vendor-liability case-law here.
§ Compare
Build any comparison→Talview against its nearest-scoring peers.
In Video interview AI.
§ Others rated in Video interview AI
All video interview vendors→Ranked 19 of 31 by weighted total under rubric v1.0. The ordering is arithmetic on the rubric and carries no view on which tool suits a given hiring process.
- 16Retorio44F
- 17CodeSignal43F
- 18Paylocity43F
- 19TalviewThis profile42F
- 20Humanly42F
- 21Mercer | Mettl42F
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