Understanding The TARAI Index's Data Fields

Company Details: company headquarters location, founding date (and age of company)

Country: Indicates where the company is headquartered.

Ownership: Indicates if the company is publicly traded or privately held.

Company Size: Indicates the size of the company based on the number of employees.

• Note: sourced from Pitchbook, Crunchbase, and LinkedIn.

This product is a(n): An indication of what the product is, and where it touches the hiring funnel and process.

Product Description: A description of the product in question as it relates to recruiting and talent acquisition.

HR Tech Tool Claims: Any claims that the company makes about this product as it relates to recruiting and talent acquisition.

Acquisitions and Mergers: Any relevant parent companies, mergers, or acquisitions.

Common Integrations or Partnerships: Any advertised compatibilities with commonly used products.

• Note: Commonly used products were derived from a list of all available integrations, where the top 30 products were listed.

Clarity of Recruiting AI Description: A subjective score from the research team regarding how clearly the AI used in the recruiting process is described by company promotional materials. HR Tech products were given a score as follows:

• • Clear: Purpose and function of the HR Tech product are both explained simply and without jargon.

  • Somewhat Clear: Only one of the two (purpose or function) is clearly explained.

  • Unclear: Neither the purpose nor the function of the HR Tech product is clearly defined.

Clarity Explanation: This field explains the research team's rationale behind the AI Clarity Ranking score the HR Tech product was assigned.

This AI is Described As: Indicates the language the company uses to describe any integrated AI used in this product.

This AI is a: Indicates if the AI integrated into the product was developed by the company independently (e.g., a proprietary model), or if the AI is an integration of a third-party model (e.g., this product offers integration with a third-party service such as OpenAI's ChatGPT).

How the AI Works: A long-form description sourced directly from the product's website and marketing materials on how the embedded AI works in the recruiting space. 

This Product Assumes: Based on how the AI used in recruiting is described in the product's description, this field describes the underlying assumptions of the claims the company makes about the product.

Governance and Transparency Statements: Any available company statements on AI fairness, bias, transparency, or governance. As well as links to any existing audits into fairness, bias, or transparency of the HR tech product that the research team was able to locate.

Training Data: A short description of the data used to train the AI used in recruiting for this product (if any information is available).

Product Assessments: 

• Indicates how AI is used in the hiring funnel within this product.

• Indicates if the product has integrated generative AI

• Indicates if the product uses automated processes within the recruiting and HR workflow.

How this Product Uses AI: A categorization of how the AI in this product is used in the recruiting process.

How this Product Uses Generative AI: A categorization of generative AI functionality embedded within the product.

Details on AI Functionality within this Product: A more detailed set of tags showing how AI is embedded into a particular HR tech product, including available features and how they work and use AI.

Details on Embedded AI Assumptions: A list of tags developed based on clustering similar assumptions about HR Tech, AI, recruiting as a profession, humanity, and technology based on a thematic grouping of the unique assumptions that underpin each product's functionality.

All Compatible Products: All advertised products that this product is compatible with. 

Marketplace Website: Some products simply offer too many integrations to be feasibly shown above. In this case, we have provided a link to the internal marketplace website.