# Rocket-Hire LLC - **Type:** Advisory firm - **Website:** https://www.rocket-hire.com - **Assessed by:** The Assurance Desk (Add-Venture Advisory Ltd) A small New Orleans hiring-assessment adviser, working since 2001, that audits hiring tools for bias under US rules: New York City's Local Law 144 and EEOC/OFCCP. ## Rocket-Hire scores Scored 1 to 5 on six criteria. There is no overall score. ### Help when things go wrong: 2/5 No published enforcement-defence history, audit outcomes, or incident track record were found anywhere on the firm's own site. ### Qualifications of the people who do the work: 3/5 Lead author Dr Charles Handler discloses a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, but no other staff credentials are published. ### What it publishes about fees: 4/5 Publishes a concrete starting price of $25,000 for its ETHICS-Hire Prism bias-audit service, unusually transparent for this sector. ### Knowledge of your sector: 3/5 Twenty-plus years of continuous focus on hiring assessment, but no evidence of NIST AI RMF or ISO 42001 competence beyond hiring bias. ### Independence from what it sells: 4/5 Markets itself as a vendor-neutral adviser across roughly 400 assessment providers rather than selling its own assessment software. ### Who carries the risk if the advice is wrong: 2/5 No professional indemnity insurance, warranty, or contractual liability commitment is disclosed in any public material. ## Sources for Rocket-Hire Every line carries the page it was read on and the date it was checked. - Rocket-Hire offers AI bias audits for hiring tools under its own 'ETHICS-Hire Prism' framework, targeting NYC Local Law 144 and EEOC/OFCCP compliance. - Source: https://rocket-hire.com/ai-bias-audits/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - Rocket-Hire discloses a starting fee for its ETHICS-Hire Prism bias audits. - Source: https://rocket-hire.com/ai-bias-audits/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - Rocket-Hire has operated as a talent-assessment advisory firm since 2001, headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. - Source: https://rocket-hire.com/company/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - The firm's own privacy policy identifies its legal name. - Source: https://rocket-hire.com/privacy-policy/ - Checked: 2026-09-20 - LinkedIn lists Rocket-Hire as a small company headquartered at 4537 North Robertson St, New Orleans, LA. - Source: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rocket-hire - Checked: 2026-09-20 ## 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: Published - Independent accreditation: Not published - Client results: Not published - How it uses AI: Not published ## Strengths - Publishes a concrete, transparent starting fee ($25,000) for its bias-audit service, rather than a vague 'contact us.' - Two decades of continuous focus (since 2001) on hiring/talent-assessment methodology, led by a PhD-credentialed I/O psychologist. - Positions itself as an independent adviser across the wider assessment-vendor market rather than a reseller of its own software. ## Things to check Each one carries the factual basis it rests on. - Its AI-governance case studies are anonymised and unquantified, naming no real client for the bias-audit practice specifically. - Basis: Confirmed on rocket-hire.com/success-stories/, whose entries describe clients only generically (e.g. 'Global Hospitality Company') with qualitative, non-metric results, and none address AI bias/ethics work. - The firm discloses no policy on its own AI use or where client/candidate data is processed, despite marketing 'AI Ethics Advising.' - Basis: Its privacy policy (rocket-hire.com/privacy-policy/) contains only an IP-ownership statement and no AI-use, data-location, or subprocessor disclosure. - Its AI-governance scope covers only NYC Local Law 144 and EEOC/OFCCP hiring-bias rules, not the fuller regime named in this candidate's brief. - Basis: The dedicated service page rocket-hire.com/ai-bias-audits/ names only LL144 and EEOC/OFCCP; NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and the Colorado AI Act are not mentioned anywhere on the site. ## Where this firm appears - [Do you need a data protection officer?](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/first-appointment) - [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.