Talno

Oslo, Norway

Assessed expert talent for Nordic companies and AI labs

We use AI to find specialists and test what they actually know, with structured assessments they take in their own time. Nordic companies get a verified shortlist for hard-to-fill roles. AI labs get vetted domain experts on demand, for as long as each project runs.

  • Specialist hiring
  • Evaluation work
  • Training data
  • Reinforcement learning environments

What we do

We sell access to assessed human expertise

Two kinds of customer buy it, for different reasons, from the same assessment engine.

Employers
Need a specialist, and the right people are rarely the ones applying. We find candidates across professional networks, assess them against the role, and deliver a verified shortlist with the reasoning attached.
AI labs
Need verified domain experts for evaluation, training data and reinforcement learning environments, for as long as a project runs and without hiring them. We supply vetted experts on demand and handle the engagement.
Domain experts
Want to put their expertise on work that matters without changing jobs to do it. We assess them once, properly, and match them to engagements that fit.

The assessment

Every assessment is a document you can read

Candidates take a structured assessment built from the requirements of the specific work. We rank them against the role and write down why. Below is an example of what a client receives.

Assessment noteExample
Role
Senior backend engineer, payments infrastructure
Field
Distributed systems, payments
Reference
TAL-EX-001

Requirements taken from the role

  • Has owned a payments system in productionMet
  • Has built idempotent handling of repeated callsMet
  • Works in Norwegian or EnglishMet
  • Experience with Norwegian financial regulationPartial
  • Available within three monthsMet

Reasoning

Seven years on payments infrastructure, the last three owning reconciliation and recovery after failure. Wrote the retry logic behind it and can explain why it looks the way it does. The regulatory side is thinner: they have worked against those requirements without owning them. We think that is learnable in this role, and we flag it rather than hide it.

Read byA person, before the note was sent

An illustrative example of the format. It does not describe a real person.

See how the assessment works

Engagements

The same work, two kinds of engagement

For employers

Specialist roles where the number of relevant people is small and most of them already have a job.

  • AI sourcing across professional networks and public profiles
  • Structured assessments candidates take in their own time
  • Candidates ranked against the role
  • A verified shortlist, reviewed by a person
How we work with employers

For AI labs

Vetted domain experts across Nordic and European fields, on demand for as long as each project runs.

  • Evaluation work
  • Training data production
  • Reinforcement learning environments
  • Engagement and compliance in jurisdiction
How we work with labs

Contact

Tell us what you need

We answer every enquiry. If we are not the right choice for you, we will say so.