2026 AI Venture Velocity Challenge semifinalist·27 of 531 ventures, selected on documented evidence·Texas A&M Mays Business School
AI Governance · Compliance & Risk × HR Technology × Enterprise

Human-centered
governance for AI.

AI now shapes how people are hired, promoted, and managed. HumaniCore builds oversight for every tool behind AI-enabled people decisions, oversight that holds up not in a demo, but where the stakes are real.

AI systems governance
Compliance & Legal
Be ready before the question arrives, with documentation that stands on its own.
Vendor products
Prove your oversight to buyers, not just describe it.
Enterprise products
Make AI-enabled people decisions defensible at scale.
Not all oversight holds up when it's tested.
And that difference is starting to matter.

Organizations using AI in workforce decisions are being asked a new kind of question, not whether their systems were reviewed, but whether that review stands up under scrutiny.

Why now

The legal window is open. Compliance is arriving from every direction.

AI now influences who gets hired, promoted, and managed across most large organizations, through screening tools, performance models, scheduling, and more. Oversight has not kept pace, and that gap is being exposed.

Recent legal action is not centered on bias alone, but on the absence of transparency, documentation, and accountability. A patchwork of new laws, varying by state and jurisdiction, now requires impact assessments, disclosures, and auditability.

More importantly, expectations are shifting faster than regulation. The question is no longer whether organizations are evaluating these systems; it's whether those evaluations will hold up when examined.

Bias

is no longer the only exposure. Transparency and documentation are now front and center.

Audit

New laws require impact assessments, disclosures, and evidence that can be examined.

Trust

Expectations are moving faster than regulation. Claims made at face value are now questioned.

The Shift

Claims are being replaced by scrutiny.

What was once accepted at face value is now being questioned in procurement, in regulatory review, and increasingly, in court.

Some forms of oversight withstand that scrutiny. Many do not. The difference is rarely visible upfront.

It becomes obvious later, in the environments where the answer actually carries weight.

The question that matters

Will this hold up
when it's challenged?

Not in a demo. Not in a sales process. When the answer has consequences, and there is no time left to prepare one.

The conversation

The market is already asking our question.

Since the Mobley ruling, the public conversation among HR practitioners, employment counsel, and technologists has shifted. The question is no longer whether AI in workforce decisions can be biased. It is whether anyone can explain, defend, and prove how a decision was made.

Procurement teams are asking for evidence before signature, not after an incident. Counsel are asking who absorbs the liability when the vendor cannot answer. Practitioners are asking, in so many words, for a standard.

The question is no longer coming. It is here. We build for the moment it is asked of you.

Approach

Organizations are converging on a new expectation.

Assurance that carries weight

Not dependent on who benefits from the outcome. Certification that means something when it's examined.

Records that hold up over time

Not just created, but defensible when examined, long after the decision was made.

This is no longer theoretical. It is becoming operational.
We are building the standard with the organizations that will be measured by it.
Compliance & Legal

When a regulator, a court, or the board asks how an AI-enabled people decision was made, the answer has to already exist, documented, defensible, and standing apart from whoever built the tool. That is the standard your organization will be held to.

Vendor products

The questions from buyers are changing. It is no longer enough to describe what has been done; you are being asked whether it will stand up beyond the sale.

Enterprise products

Responsibility does not transfer with the tool. When something fails, the burden of explanation remains, and the standard for that explanation is rising.

Recognition

Judged the way we believe AI should be judged: on evidence.

In July 2026, an independent panel of eleven judges at Texas A&M's Mays Business School reviewed documented experiment records from 248 ventures, in a challenge that opened with 531 teams across 160 universities. HumaniCore AI advanced as one of 27 semifinalists, on the strength of validated audit runs, disciplined remediation, and evidence-based execution.

AI Venture Velocity Challenge · Texas A&M Mays Business School · Representing Penn State's Smeal College of Business · 531 ventures entered · 248 submitted experiment records · 27 advanced · July 2026

We did not submit claims. We submitted records.

HumaniCore AI founder
Haley Friary-Schenk
SPHR, GPHR, SHRM-SCP
Founder / CEO · Former CPO
About

Built at the intersection of people, technology, ethics, and leadership.

HumaniCore AI is founder-led by a former Chief People Officer and global HR leader with deep experience navigating complex people, technology, and executive accountability decisions. For two decades she was the buyer these systems were sold to, evaluating them from the inside before setting out to hold them to a higher standard. She pairs that operating experience with deep technical grounding, AI and machine-learning study through MIT CSAIL and Penn State, and a Master of Management candidacy at Penn State's Smeal College of Business in Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship with an AI concentration, so our standards are built by someone who knows the technology, not only the policy.

Our engineers come from defense, cybersecurity, and big tech, industries where every system must survive an audit before it ships. Together they bring decades of experience building for the most scrutinized programs in the country. The mission that unites them: AI that shapes people decisions must answer for them.

I may have founded it, but they are the Core of HumaniCore.

Founding Partners

A limited cohort, shaping the standard.

We're working with a limited number of organizations as founding audit partners - companies shaping the standard alongside us before certification launches. Founding partners get direct access to our methodology as it is built, and a voice in what the standard requires.

Request a briefing to be considered →
Request a briefing

Be considered for the founding cohort.

Whether you build HR technology, deploy it in the enterprise, or answer for it in compliance or legal, tell us where AI touches your people decisions. Briefings are conversations, not sales calls; cohort seats are limited by design.