HR Companies & HR Consultants in Portsmouth, RI

XBInsight, Inc. is a talent assessment company based in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. It sells a software platform, along with coaching and training, to employers who want better evidence for their decisions about people. Its tools cover the whole employee lifecycle, from screening job applicants to preparing future leaders. They are aimed mainly at HR departments, talent acquisition teams and executives who need consistent data on candidates and staff.

Platform and products

The company organizes its offering into four product modules that follow the stages of employment. XB Recruit supports candidate screening and selection, XB Onboard helps new hires get up to speed, XB Develop focuses on growing current employees, and XB Succeed addresses succession and promotion decisions. Behind these modules sits a library of individual assessments and reports, including:

• Candidate assessments, with a high-volume version for large hiring programs, plus a job profile report and a multiple comparison report for ranking applicants
• A critical thinking profile and separate competency, behavior, and values and motivation instruments
• A super competency assessment and a performance evaluation report for development planning
• A leadership readiness and promotability report for succession decisions
• Team tools such as the 3C Team Assessment, a team DISC assessment and a general team assessment

Assessments are offered in multiple languages. Prospective buyers can request a demo or take a walk-through virtual tour of the platform before committing.

Approach: AI combined with I/O psychology

XBInsight describes its method as a pairing of artificial intelligence with industrial-organizational psychology. Its assessments were built by I/O psychologists and are described as scientifically validated, while the AI layer turns individual results into practical workforce recommendations.

The firm argues that spotting patterns is not enough on its own, and that psychological research is needed to explain why certain people perform, lead and progress. It also says the platform is designed to connect with the HR systems a client already uses rather than replace them.

Coaching and training services

Beyond software, XBInsight lists a set of coaching and training services on its site. Options include coaching for executives and other leaders, programs to develop leadership capability, training for sales teams, general skills development and team building. Because the services and the assessment platform come from one company, a buyer can get both testing and people development from a single vendor.

What buyers should know

The company reports that clients using its hiring assessments have cut cost-per-hire by about 70 percent and time-to-hire by about half, figures it marks with an asterisk on its site. It publishes case studies, client testimonials, white papers, webinars and a blog, and runs a partnerships program. It also lists the industries it works with on a dedicated page.

For organizations comparing HR vendors, XBInsight fits best where the goal is a single assessment-based system covering recruitment, onboarding, development and succession, with optional coaching from the same provider.