HireAIScore is an independent directory of AI hiring vendors, scored against a public rubric tied to the EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, and NYC Local Law 144.
HireAIScore is a sister property to Casework, the AI hiring compliance firm that engages directly with hiring teams on their AI Act, state-law, and NYC Local Law 144 obligations. The two properties have distinct missions — HireAIScore evaluates AI vendors; Casework engages with deployers — and operate under separate decision-making forums so that neither bleeds into the other. The full conflicts of interest policy is below.
Why this site exists
By the end of 2026 the legal landscape around AI in hiring will have shifted in ways that most HR teams are not staffed to navigate alone:
- The EU AI Act treats most hiring AI as high-risk, triggering Annex IV documentation, post-market monitoring, and fundamental rights impact assessment obligations from August 2026.
- Colorado's AI Act takes effect 30 June 2026 with similar deployer duties.
- Illinois HB 3773 (effective 1 January 2026) extends the Illinois Human Rights Act to cover AI-driven employment decisions.
- NYC Local Law 144 has required published bias audits since 2023.
- Mobley v. Workday signals that vendors themselves can face direct liability for discriminatory outcomes — and that deployer-vs-vendor blame-shifting is not a defense.
Deployers cannot satisfy these regimes without knowing what their vendors do and do not provide. Vendors' marketing pages are not designed to answer that question; their compliance documentation, where it exists, is rarely indexed. This directory closes that gap.
How we score
Every score in this directory is assigned by a named human reviewer working against the rubric on the Methodology page. The full rubric — seven categories, weights, evidence requirements, grade thresholds — is published.
We do not solicit, accept, or evaluate user-submitted reviews of vendors. This is a deliberate choice: a directory whose primary signal is crowd sentiment is too easily moved by the loudest customer (or the most aggressive vendor support team). We prefer to defend a small number of considered scores than to aggregate a large number of unverifiable opinions.
Conflicts of interest
This is the most important page on the site. Read it carefully.
HireAIScore and Casework share operators but operate under a strict editorial wall.
Operational independence
- Separate decision-making forums. Scoring decisions on HireAIScore are made by named reviewers in a forum Casework engagement leads do not sit in. Casework engagement decisions are made in a separate forum HireAIScore reviewers do not sit in.
- Scoring is not modified based on Casework engagement findings. Anything Casework learns inside a deployer engagement — vendor performance, contractual quirks, off-the-record statements — never feeds the HireAIScore rubric. The rubric consumes only public evidence and on-the-record vendor responses.
- Casework engagement leads do not contribute to HireAIScore scoring. They cannot score vendors, vote on scores, draft profiles, or veto a published score. The reverse is also true: HireAIScore reviewers cannot route Casework engagements.
No vendor money in either direction
No AI hiring vendor pays — to either property — for placement, scoring, scoring revisions, removal, suppression, sponsorship, referrals, "verified" badges, or priority on a comparison page. No vendor receives any payment, kickback, sponsorship, or referral arrangement from either property in return. This applies whether or not a vendor is a Casework client.
If anyone — vendor, journalist, or reader — is told otherwise, that is a mistake and we want to know about it.
Named recommendations disclose relationships
When any HireAIScore page, Casework deliverable, or other public output names a specific vendor as a recommendation, that output discloses any commercial relationship between Casework and the named vendor — past or present. This applies symmetrically across both properties.
Active commercial relationships are disclosed on profiles
When Casework has had a paid commercial relationship with a vendor in the past 24 months, that fact is disclosed above the fold on the vendor's HireAIScore profile and listed at the bottom of this section.
We chose 24 months because shorter windows let stale relationships influence rankings, and longer windows make the disclosure read like a generic legal hedge that no one looks at.
Conflicted reviewers do not review
The reviewer who scored a given vendor is named on that vendor's profile. If the named reviewer has a personal or financial relationship with the vendor — including past employment, paid advisory work, or family ties — the score is reassigned to an independent reviewer before publication.
We track this internally with an annual conflicts declaration from every person who has ever scored a vendor or led a Casework engagement.
Current disclosures
As of 2026-05-21:
No vendor in the directory has an active or recent (within 24 months) commercial relationship with Casework. This list updates as the directory grows.
How vendors can engage
We publish vendor profiles without prior consultation. After publication, vendors have two ways to engage with us:
- Request a re-score when underlying evidence has changed — a new bias audit, an updated technical pack, a fresh system card, a material acquisition. Re-scores typically land within 30 days.
- Submit a response — a right-of-reply, published verbatim and attributed to a named respondent, on the vendor's profile.
Both happen via the contact address below. We do not edit responses for tone or accuracy; we reserve the right to decline responses that contain personal data, threats, or claims about other vendors.
How to reach us
For all editorial questions — score disputes, response submissions, methodology questions, conflict disclosures — write to mike@higglo.io.
For Casework's consulting services, see getcasework.com.
What this site is not
- It is not a substitute for legal advice. Nothing on this site is legal advice; treat it as research input, not as a compliance opinion.
- It is not a comprehensive vendor database. We score the AI hiring vendors with the largest market presence first. We add new vendors through research, not via vendor request, though we welcome pointers via the address above.
- It is not a Trustpilot. We do not collect user reviews. The score is the score; you may disagree with it, and we will engage with evidence you bring.