§ The result
ADP leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
ADP finishes 18 points clear of XOR under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 30 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. ADP leads every one of the 7 criteria, XOR none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, ADP 28 to XOR 25. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (ADP 53, XOR 20, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 36% 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
ADP is filed under ATS-integrated AI, XOR 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 | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1949 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · XOR 20
6.6 weighted points to ADP
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · XOR 18
5.0 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · XOR 42
2.3 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · XOR 40
1.8 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · XOR 33
1.4 weighted points to ADP
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · XOR 48
0.8 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · XOR 25
0.4 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | ADP | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 20 | +33 | +6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 18 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 42 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 33 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 30 (F) | +18 | +18.4 |
§ 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 | ADP | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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