§ The result
1 point separates Adaface and impress.ai.
Adaface (Assessment) edges impress.ai (Screening) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 39 to 38. Adaface leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while impress.ai leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 2 are level. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (Adaface 38, impress.ai 32) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is FRIA Support at 15% (Adaface 30, impress.ai 25), 36% of the weighted advantage Adaface builds across the 3 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
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment automation platform that uses conversational AI assistants, resume parsing and scoring, and structured competency-based screening to filter, rank and shortlist job candidates, integrating with enterprise ATS systems.
§ The record
Adaface is filed under Assessment AI, impress.ai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Adaface | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | SG | SG |
| Founded | 2018 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 27% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Adaface 30 · impress.ai 25
0.8 weighted points to Adaface
12% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Adaface 38 · impress.ai 32
0.7 weighted points to Adaface
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Adaface 38 · impress.ai 35
0.6 weighted points to Adaface
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Adaface 52 · impress.ai 55
0.4 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Adaface 50 · impress.ai 52
0.2 weighted points to impress.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +1.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Adaface minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | Adaface | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 22 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +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 | 32 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 38 (F) | +1 | +1.4 |
§ 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 | impress.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 18 | 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; impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Adaface, across 1 distinct source domain, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Adaface last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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