§ The result
Alooba and impress.ai tie at 38.
Alooba, filed under Assessment, and impress.ai, filed under Screening, tie at 38 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Alooba leads 4 of the 7 criteria and impress.ai 1, with 2 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Alooba 45, impress.ai 55 — and at a 15% weight it carries 100% of the weighted advantage impress.ai holds across the 1 criterion on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Alooba
Alooba sells online skills assessments (auto-graded SQL, Python/R, multiple-choice and data-analysis tests, plus manually graded free-response and one-way video questions) that employers use to screen, benchmark and optionally auto-reject job candidates.
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
Alooba 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 | Alooba | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | AU | SG |
| Founded | 2019 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · impress.ai 55
1.5 weighted points to impress.ai
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · impress.ai 35
1.0 weighted points to Alooba
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · impress.ai 32
0.5 weighted points to Alooba
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · impress.ai 25
0.4 weighted points to Alooba
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · impress.ai 52
0.4 weighted points to Alooba
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +0.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 22 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 32 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 38 (F) | - | +0.8 |
§ 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 | Alooba | impress.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 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% | 7 | 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 domainSources on a separate 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% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 18 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Alooba has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 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; some documentation or audit rows for Alooba sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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