What is the best alternative to Hogan?

It depends on the job. For reading a leadership team against a plan and keeping that read current, Atlas. For the narrower jobs listed in this guide, the provider described as best for that job.

Can I bring my Hogan results into Atlas?

Atlas runs its own assessment for everyone, so every leader is read on the same model, against the same plan.

Is Atlas a Hogan replacement?

For leadership teams that need to know whether they can deliver a plan, yes. Read the full Atlas vs Hogan comparison.

Can Atlas look at the whole organisation, not only the top team?

Yes. Atlas can bring every assessment, survey answer, role and the plan together for one team or for every team in the organisation, on the same model and at the same depth, with experts reviewing the read. You can start with the leadership team and widen from there.

Can't we just ask ChatGPT?

A general AI model has no measured data on your people or your plan. Atlas works from your own assessed data and the plan you upload, and a person makes every decision. You can still connect Atlas to the AI tools you already use.

What does an Execution Forecast tell you?

It is an evidence-based assessment of execution risk: which parts of the plan the current team is best and least placed to deliver, based on the assessment, the Clarity Survey, roles and the plan itself. It shows where risk is highest and what to address first. It is not a prediction of results, and it is updated when the plan, the team or the evidence changes.

What is execution intelligence?

Working out whether a company can do what its plan says, finding where it is most likely to get stuck, and testing what to change, with the evidence behind every conclusion. Atlas People is the execution intelligence company. The full definition is in the Atlas glossary.

How long does Atlas take?

It depends on scope: how many people take part and how much of the plan is shared. Each person spends about 20 to 25 minutes on the assessment and has a one-to-one feedback session, then the team read follows. After that, Atlas updates the read when the plan, the team or the evidence changes.

Can Atlas be used for hiring?

Yes. A Match Report reads a candidate against the role and the team they would join, and Atlas supports high-volume hiring too, with a person making every decision. Atlas is not involved in finding or placing candidates, so its read stays separate from the search.

Atlas is bought through one annual agreement, scoped to the people covered, the leaders using it and the organisational work you need. Pricing is scoped to your organisation; see how Atlas is bought.

Is Atlas designed to align with the EU AI Act?

Atlas is designed to align with the EU AI Act: the human makes the decision, the evidence behind every conclusion is traceable, and people are never ranked.

Where is my data stored?

Customer data is hosted and processed in the EU, and enterprise teams can sign in with SSO / SAML.

Compare · Alternatives

The best Hogan alternatives, compared

Kevin Bjerring · Philip Myrup · Published 30 October 2026 · Checked 30 October 2026

In short

Start with the question. If you need what Hogan was built for, it may still be the right fit. If the question is whether your leadership team can deliver a specific plan, and you want that read to stay current as the plan changes, you need a tool built around the plan, not only the person.

Hogan is a well-established choice, and for the job it was built for it does that job well. Teams usually look further when they need more than a profile of one person: a read of the whole leadership team against a plan, results leaders can use without certification, or intelligence that stays current after the debrief.

This guide compares the strongest alternatives, starting with Atlas, and says plainly what each is best for, so you can match the tool to the question you actually need answered.

Quick comparison

The best Hogan alternatives, compared: quick comparison
Provider	Own assessment	Faking detection	Languages	Who reads the results	Read against the plan	Ongoing reforecasting
Atlas People	Yes	Yes	Danish, English	Leaders, with expert support	Yes	Yes
DDI	Yes	No public information	12 languages	DDI consultants, company stakeholders, HR, hiring managers, leaders, and participants, depending on the product	No public information	No public information
Gallup CliftonStrengths	Yes	No public information	50 languages	Gallup-Certified Strengths Coaches, managers, leaders and individuals	No public information	No public information
Korn Ferry	Yes	Yes	21 languages	Not published	No public information	No public information
Saville Assessment	Yes	Yes	40 languages	trained feedback providers; qualified users/project administrators; Saville consultants or accredited HR teams; occupational psychologists; HR teams; hiring and line managers; assessors/interviewers; recruiters; candidates/individuals; and the organisation that invited the candidate, which decides who sees the results	Yes	No public information
SHL	Yes	No public information	40 languages	client/company results recipient	No public information	No public information
Talogy	Yes	Yes	30 languages	hiring managers, test administrators, candidates/participants, employees, and groups/teams or business users depending on the report	No public information	No public information
The Predictive Index	No public information	No public information	68 languages	recruiters, managers, co-workers; trained Predictive Index Practitioners should review results; managers and direct reports also review them together	No public information	No public information
Thomas International	Yes	No public information	50+	Accredited assessment practitioners, managers, HR teams, and candidates	No public information	No public information

Competitor details from each provider's own site and public pages, checked 30 October 2026.

1. Atlas People

Atlas is an execution intelligence platform for leadership teams. It runs its own 34-construct assessment of behaviour under pressure, puts the results in context with your plan, roles and teams, and can cover one team or every team in the organisation on the same model. It shows whether your organisation can deliver the plan, what could get in the way and what to address first. The read stays current: Atlas reforecasts when the plan, the team or the evidence changes.

Its own forced-choice assessment, with faking detection built in
Team Reports, Collaboration Playbooks and an Execution Forecast against your plan
Match Reports for hiring, including high-volume hiring
One method from a single team to the whole organisation, at the same depth
An AI assistant in the portal, with expert support
EU data hosting, SSO, Danish and English, designed to align with the EU AI Act

Best for: CEOs, boards, investors and HR leaders who need to know whether a team can deliver a plan, and want that read kept current.

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2. DDI

DDI is a global leadership consulting firm with more than 50 years of experience, helping organisations hire, promote and develop leaders through assessment, simulation and development programmes. It is built for enterprises building leadership pipelines.

DDI's simulations and development programmes are built for growing leaders over time. Read Atlas vs DDI.

Best for: Simulation-based assessment centres and large leadership development programmes run by a long-established firm.

3. Gallup CliftonStrengths

Gallup CliftonStrengths is Gallup's strengths assessment, formerly StrengthsFinder, which helps individuals and managers name and develop their talents. Gallup Access adds software for leaders and HR to see where performance breaks down. It is built for development across a whole workforce.

CliftonStrengths is widely recognised and easy to roll out for development across a large workforce. Read Atlas vs Gallup CliftonStrengths.

Best for: A widely known strengths language for development across a large workforce, with self-serve access.

4. Korn Ferry

Korn Ferry is a global organisational consulting firm. Korn Ferry Assess evaluates candidates and employees against thousands of success profiles, drawing on what Korn Ferry describes as the world's largest talent dataset. It is built for large enterprises running selection, succession and development at scale, often alongside Korn Ferry's search and consulting work.

Korn Ferry's benchmark data is larger: it compares people against thousands of success profiles across industries. Read Atlas vs Korn Ferry.

Best for: Succession planning against thousands of predefined success profiles, bundled with global search and consulting.

5. Saville Assessment

Saville Assessment builds behavioural and cognitive assessments, including its Wave questionnaires, to help organisations know who will perform before they hire, promote or move people. It is built for talent and HR teams that want predictive assessment science.

Saville's questionnaires and aptitude tests are focused on predicting individual performance, with published security and trust materials for procurement. Read Atlas vs Saville Assessment.

Best for: A well-established behavioural and aptitude questionnaire to predict individual performance in a role, in many languages.

6. SHL

SHL is a large talent assessment company. Its platform covers personality, cognitive, skills and job-simulation assessments, from self-service tests bought online to enterprise programmes. It is built for talent acquisition and HR teams assessing people at scale.

SHL's test catalogue is broader: it covers cognitive ability, skills and job simulations across many roles, not only leadership. Read Atlas vs SHL.

Best for: A broad catalogue of cognitive, skills and personality tests for many job families, at enterprise volume.

7. Talogy

Talogy combines online assessments with in-person services to help organisations build complete hiring and development processes, including leadership solutions such as Talogy InView Leadership and Talogy Spotlight. It is built for enterprise HR and talent teams.

Talogy offers custom assessment design and in-person programmes across the whole talent process. Read Atlas vs Talogy.

Best for: A partner to design a bespoke enterprise assessment and development programme across your talent process.

8. The Predictive Index

The Predictive Index (PI) offers behavioural and cognitive assessments, insights and AI to help managers hire and lead well. Its platform covers hiring, manager development and team performance, with its AI, Obi, built in, sold as one annual subscription priced by headcount. It is built for managers and HR teams in growing companies.

PI is designed for breadth: it puts a behavioural tool in the hands of every manager, which suits companies that want one shared language across all levels. Read Atlas vs The Predictive Index.

Best for: A simple behavioural assessment that every manager in the company can use day to day, with published subscription pricing by headcount.

9. Thomas International

Thomas International offers a talent assessment platform that combines psychology and machine learning to help businesses recruit and retain the right people. Its team product includes behavioural assessment and Thom, an AI coach that helps managers use the insights. It is built for HR teams and managers in small and mid-sized organisations.

Thomas covers a broad workforce, with aptitude tests and an AI coach aimed at line managers. Read Atlas vs Thomas International.

Best for: Behavioural and aptitude assessments with an AI coach for line managers, across a broad workforce.

How Atlas works in practice

What you provide

The plan you want to test: strategy, goals or OKRs
Roles and team structure for the people involved
Who takes part, and when

What participants do

Each person takes the Atlas assessment, about 20 to 25 minutes
A one-to-one feedback session on their own results
A short Clarity Survey, about 10 to 15 minutes, on how well the plan is understood

What you receive

Personal Collaboration Playbook (In the platform)
AI assistant answering questions from your own data (In the platform)
Team Report and Execution Forecast (Reviewed by Atlas experts)
Match Report for a hiring decision (Reviewed by Atlas experts)
Recommendations and follow-up (With Atlas expert support)

The Clarity Survey repeats on an agreed cadence, typically quarterly, and Atlas updates the read when the plan, the team or the evidence changes. A person makes every decision.

Scenario simulation and organisation-wide forecasting are in development and are not part of Atlas today.

See an illustrative sample forecast, how the assessment method works, how data is handled and how Atlas is bought.

How to choose

Then check three things: what the tool measures, what it measures people against, and what happens after the first report.

Want to know whether your leadership team can deliver the plan, where execution risk is highest and what to change, with a platform that keeps the read current, EU-hosted and designed to align with the EU AI Act? Go with Atlas.

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