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Research & Education Access

Put a cutting-edge interview assessment to work in your research.

Talent Select AI offers free access to our Complete ATS and Developer API for I/O psychology researchers, corporate I/O practitioners, and students. Study structured interviews, personality, and competencies with an assessment that gives the same result for the same response, every time.

  • Free for approved researchers and students
  • Complete ATS, Developer API, or both
  • 24 measures from interview language
  • Deterministic, version-pinned scoring
  • Same text, same result, every time
  • Built with leading I/O psychologists
  • Glass-box methods, no LLM scoring
  • Free for research and education
Why researchers use it

A measurement tool, not a black box.

Generative AI models can rate the same interview differently from one run to the next. For research, that's a confound. The TSAI Assessment was built to be stable, transparent, and citable.

Reproducible

Same text, same result

Scoring is fully deterministic. Rerun a transcript on the same engine version next week or next year and you'll get an identical result.

Citable

Cite the exact engine

Every API result reports the engine version that produced it, so your methods section can specify exactly what was measured and how.

Transparent

Glass-box methodology

Dictionary- and statistics-based language analysis grounded in established psychometric frameworks. No large language model ever produces a score.

Established constructs

The frameworks you already study

The Great Eight competencies, Big Five–based personality measures, and motivation constructs such as grit, resilience, and proactiveness.

Job analysis

Role-level research built in

Turn any job description into the 3–7 traits that matter most for the role, informed by O*NET occupational data, and rate each candidate's Fit against them.

Real behavior

Real responses, not questionnaires

Measures come from what people actually say in an interview, not from how they choose to answer a self-report inventory.

Who it's for

One research tool, three kinds of researchers.

Academic research

Faculty and academic researchers

Run studies on structured interviews, personality, and selection with a scoring engine you can describe precisely in your methods section.

  • Validation studies relating assessment results to performance and other outcomes
  • Comparisons with trained human raters and self-report inventories
  • Research on interview design, question type, and response length
  • Teaching psychometrics with a real, working assessment
Internal research

Corporate I/O and people analytics

Evaluate interview-based assessment against your own criteria, with your own samples, before it ever touches a hiring decision.

  • Local validation and pilot studies
  • Adverse-impact analysis on your own data
  • Benchmarks against your current assessments and interview ratings
  • Evidence for a business case for structured interviewing
Hands-on learning

Students

Studying I/O psychology, business, HR, or people analytics? Get hands-on experience with a cutting-edge assessment tool before you enter the field.

  • Build and run a structured interview from start to finish
  • See how job analysis turns a job description into the traits that matter
  • Analyze transcripts with a real API for a thesis, capstone, or class project
  • Graduate with experience in the next generation of hiring assessment
What you get

Choose your access. Or take both.

Both products run on the same assessment engine. Use the Complete ATS to run interviews from start to finish, the Developer API to analyze transcripts you already have, or combine them.

Best for hands-on studies and coursework

Complete ATS

The full hiring workflow with the assessment built in. Create a job, run one-way and live video interviews, and see every candidate's results, all in one place.

  • Jobs with automatic job analysis and structured interview kits
  • One-way and live video interviews
  • Results ranked by Fit, with video and transcript side by side
  • Careers pages, applications, screening, and offers
Best for analyzing data at scale

Developer API

Programmatic access to the assessment engine. Send interview transcripts as text and get structured, versioned results back as JSON.

  • 24 measures of competency, personality, and motivation
  • Job analysis with O*NET lookup and 3–7 critical scales
  • Bulk scoring of up to 25 transcripts per request
  • OpenAPI reference and a developer portal with usage tracking
Sample Developer API result
{
  "engine_version": "2.0.0",
  "scores": {
    "leading_and_deciding": "Substantial",
    "analyzing_and_interpreting": "High",
    "conscientiousness": "Moderate",
    "grit": "High",
    "...": "all 24 measures"
  },
  "fit_rating": { "fit_rating": "Strong", "scales_rated": 5 }
}
Constructs

24 measures across three established frameworks.

Every measure is reported as High, Substantial, Moderate, or Minimal. When a response doesn't contain enough evidence, the result is Inconclusive rather than a guess.

Competencies

The Great Eight competency framework.

  • Leading & Deciding
  • Supporting & Cooperating
  • Interacting & Presenting
  • Analyzing & Interpreting
  • Creating & Conceptualizing
  • Organizing & Executing
  • Adapting & Coping
  • Enterprising & Performing

Personality

Big Five–based measures and emotional expression.

  • Openness
  • Conscientiousness
  • Extraversion
  • Agreeableness
  • Empathy
  • Positive expression of emotion
  • Negative expression of emotion

Motivation & drive

What energizes people and how they sustain effort.

  • Enthusiasm
  • Proactiveness
  • Grit
  • Resilience
  • Sustained dedication
  • Self-determination
  • Delayed gratification
  • Certainty
  • Uncertainty
Scientific foundation

Built with leaders in I/O psychology.

The TSAI Assessment was designed and validated with leading industrial-organizational psychology researchers and validated against tens of thousands of interviews. Our validation report, including adverse-impact analysis, was authored by Dr. Michael A. Campion. You can request a copy along with your access.

“Talent Select AI has been validated to measure what is important for hiring — attributes that research has shown to correlate with workplace performance.”

Michael A. Campion, Ph.D., Purdue University
Dr. Michael A. Campion

Dr. Michael A. Campion

Herman C. Krannert Distinguished Professor of Management, Purdue University. Over 170 articles on employment testing, interviewing, job analysis, and computerized text analysis for employment decisions.

Dr. Emily D. Campion

Dr. Emily D. Campion

Associate Professor of Management, University of Iowa Tippie College of Business. Research on the future of work, staffing, and machine learning and natural language processing in organizations.

How it works

From request to research.

01

Request access

Tell us who you are, which product you'd like, and how you plan to use it. It takes about two minutes.

02

We review your request

Our team reviews every request to confirm your affiliation and follows up by email.

03

Start your research

Get set up with the Complete ATS, the Developer API, or both, and start collecting or analyzing interviews.

Free access

Request free research access.

Access is free for approved researchers, corporate I/O practitioners, and students. Use your university or work email so we can confirm your affiliation.

  • No cost for research and education
  • Complete ATS, Developer API, or both
  • Every request reviewed by our team

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is it really free?

Yes. Access is free for approved academic researchers, corporate I/O and people analytics practitioners conducting research, and students.

Who can request access?

Faculty, researchers, and graduate or undergraduate students in I/O psychology, business, HR, people analytics, and related fields, plus I/O and people analytics practitioners conducting internal research. We ask for a university or work email so we can confirm your affiliation.

Should I choose the Complete ATS or the Developer API?

Choose the Complete ATS if you want to run interviews yourself, whether for a study, a class, or a simulated hiring process. Choose the Developer API if you already have interview transcripts, or want to analyze many of them programmatically. Not sure? Request both.

What data does the Developer API accept?

Interview transcripts as text, from any interview format and any transcription provider. Transcript text isn't stored by default, is never written to logs, and is never sent to a large language model.

How do I describe the assessment in a methods section?

Every API result reports the engine version that produced it, so you can state exactly what was measured. Scoring is deterministic: the same text on the same engine version always produces the same result. Ask our team about methodology details when you request access.

Can I use research access to make hiring decisions?

Research and education access is for research and learning. If you'd like to use Talent Select AI in live hiring, talk to our team about our products.