The TalentSight practice
TalentSight
Your hiring stack screens, ranks, and rejects people with software — and the law treats those as your employment decisions to defend. TalentSight is where HR leaders build the record that answers for them.
It runs from free instruments to a maintained research library to firm-led engagements — one practice, five rungs, so you can start where your exposure is and move up as you need to. National in scope; deepest in Illinois.
The condition
Rules churn; liability doesn’t.
Federal enforcers were redirected, but no statute moved: Title VII, the ADEA, the ADA, and every state human-rights act remain fully available to private plaintiffs — and the plaintiffs’ bar is using them. In the leading AI-hiring case the court let claims proceed against the screening vendor as an agent of the employers, then routed discovery through the employers’ own files. The record your organization keeps — notice, inventory, vendor answers, human review — is what decides the charge when it arrives.
Most HR teams have not read the laws that reach them. The work of this practice is to close that gap — and to keep it closed as the rules move.
Where to start
One practice, five rungs.
Start where your exposure is. The maintained library is the centre of gravity; the free instruments sit below it and the firm-led engagements above it.
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Free instruments
FreeThe AI Hiring Exposure Snapshot (Illinois edition) and the adverse-impact calculator — self-scoring, no account required.
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TalentSight Intelligence
$999 / yrThe maintained research library: briefings, playbooks, templates, trackers, and working instruments, verified against primary sources and kept current as the law moves. One named seat; $2,499 for three.
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Self-Guided Diagnostic
$1,950A structured, self-run assessment that produces your documented posture — subscribers take 20% off within the subscription year.
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AI Compliance Diagnostic
$9,500A firm-led, fixed-fee engagement that produces a board-ready compliance posture memo for your organization.
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Advisory — the Bench
Application-onlyFor the few organizations that need a named advisor rather than a library: five advisory seats in total, with priority to subscribers.
What this is — and is not
It is a research library by design. Maintained intelligence is the feature: every document dated, sourced, and revised when the landscape moves. Questions asked in public HR forums, LinkedIn groups, and vendor webinars create records — and the leading AI-hiring case just routed discovery through employers’ own files. Consumption of this library is private; subscriber organizations are never disclosed; the Question Desk publishes answers, never askers.
It is not a training program. There is nothing to complete and no badge — a shelf, not a syllabus, consulted in whatever order the quarter demands.
It is not legal advice. Techné AI provides advisory services and does not provide legal advice or assurance services; results should be reviewed with licensed counsel.
It is not a guarantee of compliance. The library describes what statutes require and what courts have held; it makes no claim that a specific organization is compliant, in any jurisdiction.
Founder
Khullani M. Abdullahi, JD
Founder & Principal Advisor
I founded Techné AI as an independent practice at the intersection of AI governance, regulatory compliance, and D&O liability. I authored the AI Governance & D&O Liability briefing now in active circulation among directors, officers, broker partners, and the underwriters who serve them; after my testimony to the Illinois Senate Executive Subcommittee on AI and Social Media, one of the recommendations from that testimony became an AI-risk impact study bill. I host the AI in Chicago podcast, where I interview the researchers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers shaping the field.
Questions
Asked and answered.
What is TalentSight?
TalentSight is the practice at Techné AI for HR, talent, and people leaders who answer for AI in employment decisions. Its core is TalentSight Intelligence — a maintained research library — with free instruments below it and firm-led engagements above it.
How do I get access to the library?
TalentSight Intelligence is self-serve: subscribe on the library page and you are inside the same day. $999 a year for one named seat; $2,499 for three. There is no application and no waiting on approval.
Is it a community or a course?
Neither. It is a maintained research library — a desk you consult, privately. There is no forum, no directory, no threads, and nothing to finish. Questions asked in public HR forums create records; this library deliberately creates none.
Is it national, or Illinois-only?
National. The library serves HR leaders at US employers wherever AI touches their hiring, with the multi-state map maintained on a published cadence. Illinois is the deepest shelf — the flagship jurisdiction — not the audience definition.
Is this legal advice?
No. TalentSight is advisory and educational research; it is not legal advice, and Techné AI does not provide legal services. It is built to make your work with counsel more efficient, not to replace it.
Start
The library is the fastest way to get defensible — and stay that way.