Ask an AI assistant what a role pays and you will get an answer. It will be specific, it will be formatted like a benchmark, and it will arrive in the same confident tone the assistant uses for everything else. Some of the time it will be close. The problem is that nothing about the […]

When an assistant answers a question about pay, there are two very different things that could be happening underneath. In the first, it is reconstructing a plausible figure from patterns it learned during training. In the second, it is asking a live system for a record and handing back what it received. The answers look […]

Choosing a compensation data provider is one of the few procurement decisions in human resources where the wrong answer stays invisible for a long time. Software that does not work announces itself within a week. Salary data that is quietly wrong keeps producing confident numbers, and nobody notices until offers start getting declined or a […]