§ The result
Alva Labs leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 28 points between Alva Labs (Assessment) and Emi (Screening): 61 (D) for Alva Labs, 33 (F) for Emi. Alva Labs leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Emi leads none. The advantage Alva Labs holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Alva Labs 78, Emi 28, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points Alva Labs gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Alva Labs
Alva Labs sells a science-backed hiring platform whose core is a suite of proprietary psychometric assessments - an adaptive logic (general mental ability) test, a Five-Factor Model personality test, and coding tests - wrapped in candidate management, CV screening, and structured-interview tooling.
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
Alva Labs is filed under Assessment AI, Emi under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Alva Labs is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alva Labs | Emi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | AR |
| Founded | 2017 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alva Labs 78 · Emi 28
10.0 weighted points to Alva Labs
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alva Labs 58 · Emi 18
7.2 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alva Labs 68 · Emi 44
3.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alva Labs 63 · Emi 44
2.3 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alva Labs 52 · Emi 35
2.0 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alva Labs 38 · Emi 25
1.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alva Labs 68 · Emi 48
1.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +28.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 28.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +28 beside that +28.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus Emi.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | Emi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 28 | +50 | +10.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 18 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 44 | +24 | +3.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 44 | +19 | +2.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 48 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 33 (F) | +28 | +28.7 |
§ 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 | Alva Labs | Emi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Alva Labs has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 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 Alva Labs and Emi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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