§ The result
Darwinbox leads Adaface by 7 points.
Darwinbox scores 46 and Adaface 39 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Adaface takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 4 for Darwinbox, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Adaface 38, Darwinbox 60) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 63% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Adaface
Adaface runs chatbot-led 'conversational' skills tests for 500+ roles that score candidates automatically as pass, borderline pass or fail on benchmarked scorecards, backed by webcam, screen and IP proctoring and an AI résumé parser.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
§ The record
Adaface is filed under Assessment AI, Darwinbox under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Adaface is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Adaface | Darwinbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | IN |
| Founded | 2018 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Adaface 38 · Darwinbox 60
4.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Adaface 22 · Darwinbox 28
1.1 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Adaface 52 · Darwinbox 58
0.9 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Adaface 50 · Darwinbox 55
0.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Adaface 38 · Darwinbox 35
0.4 weighted points to Adaface
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Adaface 58 · Darwinbox 57
0.1 weighted points to Adaface
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Adaface minus Darwinbox.
| Category | Weight | Adaface | Darwinbox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 28 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 46 (F) | -7 | -6.5 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Adaface | Darwinbox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Adaface has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Adaface, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Adaface last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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