# BABL AI Inc. - **Type:** Advisory firm - **Website:** https://babl.ai/ - **Assessed by:** The Assurance Desk (Add-Venture Advisory Ltd) A US AI-audit firm running New York City Local Law 144 bias audits and ISO 42001 and EU AI Act assessments. Its named clients are hiring-technology companies. ## BABL AI scores Scored 1 to 5 on six criteria. There is no overall score. ### Help when things go wrong: 3/5 Runs LL144 audits and covers NIST AI RMF/EU AI Act per its service page, but no named regulatory-enforcement defence or litigated-incident work was found in this pass. ### Qualifications of the people who do the work: 3/5 No individual staff degrees or certifications are published, but the firm holds a ForHumanity board seat and a founding IAAA membership at the org level. ### What it publishes about fees: 3/5 FAQ states fees are fixed in the engagement letter and never contingent on findings, but no rate card or fee range is published anywhere. ### Knowledge of your sector: 4/5 Four named, quoted clients (iCIMS, BrightHire, HackerRank, RippleMatch) are all HR-tech hiring-algorithm bias audits, a specific and well-evidenced specialism. ### Independence from what it sells: 5/5 FAQ states BABL AI does not design, build or remediate the systems it audits, and separates advisory staffing from assurance staffing per ISAE 3000 rules. ### Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong: 3/5 Uses ISAE 3000-based reporting with senior-advisor quality review before issuance, but no PI-insurance or liability-cap disclosure was found on the site. ## Sources for BABL AI Every line carries the page it was read on and the date it was checked. - BABL AI was founded in 2018 as an independent AI-audit firm, before most AI-governance law existed. - Source: https://babl.ai/who-we-are/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - BABL AI runs NYC Local Law 144 bias audits directly, or verifies a client's own testing, as a named service line. - Source: https://babl.ai/what-we-do/audit-assurance/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - BABL AI states its fee is fixed in the engagement letter and is never contingent on audit findings. - Source: https://babl.ai/faq/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - BABL AI runs audits to the ISAE 3000 assurance standard and typically completes a single-system audit in five to eight weeks. - Source: https://babl.ai/what-we-do/audit-assurance/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - BABL AI's privacy policy states its work is always human initiated, directed and reviewed, and it does not use solely automated decisions with legal effect. - Source: https://babl.ai/privacy-policy/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - Four named clients, iCIMS, BrightHire, HackerRank and RippleMatch, give attributed, on-the-record testimonials about completed bias/risk audits. - Source: https://babl.ai/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - BABL AI publishes a price for its AI Audit & Assurance Training Program: $2,500. It publishes no figure for its audits. - Source: https://babl.ai/what-we-do/education-training/ - Checked: 2026-09-29 ## What this provider publishes Not published means we did not find it on the firm's own pages. - Price: Published - Indemnity cover: Not published - Credentials: Not published - Independent accreditation: Not published - Client results: Published - How it uses AI: Published ## Strengths - Runs NYC Local Law 144 bias audits directly (attestation or independent testing), plus ISO 42001 gap analysis and NIST AI RMF/EU AI Act-aligned assessment work, as named service lines. - Four named, on-the-record clients (iCIMS, BrightHire, HackerRank, RippleMatch) give attributed testimonials naming specific completed algorithmic-bias audits, including a claimed 'first-ever bias audit report in interview intelligence' for BrightHire. - States a fixed, non-contingent fee model and says it does not design, build or remediate the systems it audits; advisory and assurance work are staffed and disclosed separately, mirroring ISAE 3000 independence rules used in financial audit. - Has operated as a dedicated AI-audit specialist since 2018, longer than NYC LL144, the EU AI Act or the Colorado AI Act have existed. - Embedded in the AI-audit standards world: founder Shea Brown holds a ForHumanity board seat, the firm is a founding member of the International Association of Algorithmic Auditors, and it sits on the PACT AI Leadership Council. ## Things to check Each one carries the factual basis it rests on. - The team page names 14 people and titles but publishes no individual degrees, professional certifications or prior employers for any of them. - Basis: babl.ai/who-we-are/ fetched 2026-09-20 lists names and titles only, no bios or credentials. - The public subprocessors page promises disclosure but its 'current providers' table is empty, so the actual vendors handling client data are not named there. - Basis: babl.ai/subprocessors/ fetched 2026-09-20 shows an empty current-providers table. - No fee figures or rate card are published anywhere on the site, only the fee structure (fixed, non-contingent) is disclosed. - Basis: babl.ai/faq/ fetched 2026-09-20 states the structure only, no dollar figures. - We could not read the state register. Ask for its company details and current status. - Basis: Iowa SOS and OpenCorporates both failed via direct fetch and Bright Data fallback on 2026-09-20. ## Where this firm appears - [Can the firm that prepares you also certify you?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/certification-seeking) - [Does the EU AI Act apply to a UK firm?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/eu-ai-act-exposed) - [Your sector adds its own rules to UK data protection law](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/sector-regulated) - [Which data protection, AI governance and cyber security providers publish a price?](https://theassurancedesk.com/lists/providers-that-publish-a-price) - [Compare providers](https://theassurancedesk.com/compare) --- **Scope.** The Assurance Desk covers data protection, AI governance and cyber security in the United Kingdom and the United States. It scores providers in both: UK-facing firms, and firms based in the United States. Every provider scored so far was selected for data-protection, AI-governance or security-assurance work. Where a page describes law, it names the country that law applies in. **Who publishes this.** The Assurance Desk is published by Add-Venture Advisory Ltd, company number 11854524, registered in England and Wales. The same owner runs Avouch, a marketing agency that sells AI visibility services to firms of the kind this site covers. That is a conflict of interest, and it is disclosed here. **Corrections.** If you represent this firm and something here is wrong or out of date, email hello@theassurancedesk.com with the evidence.