§ The result
HiringBranch leads Adaface on all 7 criteria.
Both filed under Assessment, HiringBranch and Adaface come out 52 and 39 under rubric v1.0, 13 points in favour of HiringBranch. Of the 7 criteria Adaface wins none, and the narrowest lead HiringBranch holds is on Human Oversight Design, Adaface 50 to HiringBranch 52. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Adaface 22, HiringBranch 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
Adaface and HiringBranch are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Adaface | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | CA |
| Founded | 2018 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Adaface 22 · HiringBranch 60
6.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Adaface 38 · HiringBranch 60
4.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Adaface 30 · HiringBranch 35
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Adaface 58 · HiringBranch 64
0.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Adaface 52 · HiringBranch 55
0.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Adaface 50 · HiringBranch 52
0.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Adaface 38 · HiringBranch 40
0.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Adaface minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | Adaface | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 60 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 52 (F) | -13 | -13.4 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Adaface has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Adaface, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Adaface last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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