§ The result
Alva Labs leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 27 points between Alva Labs (Assessment) and Zappyhire (Screening): 61 (D) for Alva Labs, 34 (F) for Zappyhire. Alva Labs leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Zappyhire leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Alva Labs 78, Zappyhire 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 35% of the weighted advantage Alva Labs holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Alva Labs is filed under Assessment AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alva Labs | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | IN |
| Founded | 2017 | 2018 |
§ 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 · Zappyhire 30
9.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alva Labs 58 · Zappyhire 28
5.4 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alva Labs 68 · Zappyhire 42
3.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alva Labs 52 · Zappyhire 28
2.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alva Labs 38 · Zappyhire 25
1.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alva Labs 68 · Zappyhire 45
1.8 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alva Labs 63 · Zappyhire 50
1.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +27.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +27 beside that +27.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 30 | +48 | +9.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 28 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 42 | +26 | +3.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 28 | +24 | +2.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 45 | +23 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 34 (F) | +27 | +27.1 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alva Labs and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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