HR & employment

Explain every people decision.

AI-assisted hiring and performance decisions are high-stakes and high-scrutiny. Norma explains each recommendation with its inputs, flags disparity risk, and keeps an audit trail mapped to EEOC guidance and high-risk AI rules.

Explainable decision card

Candidate #331 — screening decision

81%

Advance to interview: role-relevant experience and skills alignment are strong across four reviewed signals.

Skills match 9 of 11 required
Relevant experience 6+ years
Structured rubric v4 applied
Watch: two signals use proxy data; confirm they do not correlate with a protected class before finalizing.
Human review: confirm proxy signals are job-relevant before scheduling.
The problem

The decisions people already have to make.

Discrimination risk

An unexplained ranking can hide disparate impact. Teams need to see which inputs drove the outcome.

Candidate & employee trust

People want to know how an AI decision about them was reached — and regulators may require it.

Unreviewable outputs

Hiring and promotion decisions must support human review. A score alone does not.

How Northgale helps

Explain every recommendation, capture every decision.

Disparity risk flags

Surface when a decision pattern risks disparate impact, before it is finalized.

Explainable rankings

Show which qualifications and signals ranked a candidate — in plain language.

Human-review ready

Every recommendation includes the evidence a reviewer needs to approve or override it.

EEOC-aligned audit trail

Record reasoning and inputs for every consequential employment decision.

Start with one high-stakes workflow.

Add explanations where trust and compliance matter most — then expand.