About Talent Select AI

Built on science. Designed for better hiring decisions.

We built Talent Select AI to bring explainable, evidence-based candidate intelligence to every hiring team, however they hire, and whatever systems they use.

Our story

The problem with hiring is missing signal.

Hiring teams work hard. They review hundreds of candidates, conduct interviews, and still end up making decisions with incomplete information.

That's because the most important signal is buried inside the interview itself: the way candidates communicate, think, and approach their work.

We knew that the language candidates use in interviews contains meaningful insight into how they work. But until now, there hasn't been a practical way to extract and use that insight consistently, at scale.

We built the TSAI Assessment to change that.

Structured, explainable, and grounded in decades of behavioral science. Not a black box. Not another test. Just clearer insight from the interviews you're already conducting, delivered through a complete ATS, alongside the ATS you already use, or through our API.

Our promise

Explainable, evidence-based clarity.

Insight that is traceable to what candidates actually said and grounded in validated science, clear enough to support real hiring decisions.

Our commitment

Three principles we won't compromise.

Explainability

Every result is grounded in what candidates actually said, produced by transparent, documented methods you can understand and stand behind.

Evidence-Based Science

Our approach is rooted in decades of industrial-organizational psychology research, including validated frameworks like the Great Eight competencies and Big Five–based personality measures.

Consistent & Reliable

The same response always produces the same result: stable, repeatable insight that helps organizations make dependable hiring decisions.

Leadership team

Built by leaders in hiring, technology, and I/O psychology.

Stuart Olsten

President & Chairman

Stuart has served as chairman and president of the Olsten Corporation, (NYSE / Fortune 500) which was the third largest global staffing company and the largest home health company in the country through April 2000. At that time, Olsten Staffing merged with Adecco and Stuart served on their board of directors. The home health division was split off into a separately traded company named, Gentiva (NASDAQ / Russell 1000). Stuart served as interim chairman and continued as a director until 2015. He also acquired and served as Chairman of MaggieMoos Int'l, the third largest specialty ice cream company, which was sold in 2007. In 2017, Stuart acquired Harqen, a leading asynchronous audio/video interviewing platform which was sold in 2022 and spearheaded the technology that led to Talent Select AI in 2020.

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William Rose

Chief Technology Officer

Will oversees product development and technology operations. He has held senior leadership roles across IT operations, product management, and product marketing. Prior to joining Talent Select AI, Will served as a senior executive at NewtekOne, a NASDAQ-listed company. He holds a Master of Jurisprudence in Cybersecurity Law & Policy from Texas A&M University School of Law.

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Scientific advisors

Advised by leaders in I/O psychology.

Our scientific advisors don't just lend credibility. They shape how we think about measurement, validation, and the responsible use of behavioral science in hiring.

Michael A. Campion, PhD

Purdue University, Krannert School of Management

Michael A. Campion is one of the foremost researchers in industrial-organizational psychology, and serves as the Herman C. Krannert Distinguished Professor of Management at Purdue University. He has over 170 articles in scientific and professional journals on such topics as employment testing, interviewing, mitigating employment discrimination, job analysis, work and team design, training, turnover, promotion, motivation, and computerized text analysis and artificial intelligence for employment decision making. He has over 42,000 Google Scholar citations, over 12,500 Web of Science citations, and he is the second most cited author of over 9,000 authors in textbooks in both I/O Psychology and Human Resource Management. He is a fellow of SIOP, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychology Society, and a member of the Academy.

Emily D. Campion, PhD

Associate Professor of Management, University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business

Emily D. Campion, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Management in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on The Future of Work, staffing procedures, leveraging machine learning and natural language processing to improve organizational systems, and mitigating employment discrimination.

What we offer

One assessment, three ways to use it.

Every product runs on the same validated assessment engine. Pick the one that fits how you hire today, and change as you grow.

For talent acquisition teams that want the full stack

Complete ATS

Applicant tracking with interviews and assessment built into every step, from careers page to signed offer.

Careers site, applications, and screening
One-way and live video interviews
Candidates ranked by Fit
Offers with e-signature

Explore the Complete ATS

For teams that already have an ATS

Interview + Assessment

Structured one-way and live video interviews with the assessment built in, connected to the ATS you already use.

Connects to your existing ATS
One-way and live video interviews
Candidates ranked by Fit
Public API for custom workflows

Explore Interview + Assessment

For HR tech platforms and researchers

Developer API

Put validated, explainable assessment inside your own product or your research with a REST API.

24 measures from interview text
Job analysis and role-specific Fit
Deterministic, versioned scoring
Developer portal and API reference

Explore the Developer API

Talk to us

Want to understand the science?

Talk to our team. We'll walk you through our validation research, the frameworks behind the assessment, and how it applies to your roles.

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