§ The result
ADP leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
ADP finishes 15 points clear of Emi under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 33 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. ADP takes all 7 criteria and Emi none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, ADP 28 to Emi 25. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (ADP 46, Emi 18, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage ADP holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
§ The record
ADP is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Emi under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ADP | Emi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AR |
| Founded | 1949 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · Emi 18
5.0 weighted points to ADP
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · Emi 28
5.0 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · Emi 44
1.9 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · Emi 44
1.3 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · Emi 35
1.2 weighted points to ADP
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · Emi 48
0.8 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · Emi 25
0.4 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Emi.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Emi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 28 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 18 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 44 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 44 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 33 (F) | +15 | +15.8 |
§ 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 | ADP | Emi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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