§ The result
Cangrade leads Aon Assessment on all 7 criteria.
Cangrade sits 10 points above Aon Assessment under rubric v1.0, 45 against 35, with both filed under Assessment. Cangrade is ahead of Aon Assessment on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at Aon Assessment 30 to Cangrade 35. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Aon Assessment 38, Cangrade 54) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Aon Assessment 40, Cangrade 52), the second being 25% of the weighted advantage Cangrade holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Aon Assessment
Aon Assessment Solutions (formerly cut-e) provides enterprise pre-hire psychometric assessments - ability, personality (ADEPT-15), situational-judgement, gamified cognitive (smartPredict/gridChallenge) tests and an AI-scored video interview tool (vidAssess-AI) - used to screen and rank job applicants at scale.
Vendor profile
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
§ The record
Aon Assessment and Cangrade are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Aon Assessment | Cangrade |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Aon Assessment 40 · Cangrade 52
2.4 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Aon Assessment 38 · Cangrade 54
2.4 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Aon Assessment 45 · Cangrade 56
1.3 weighted points to Cangrade
8% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Aon Assessment 48 · Cangrade 62
1.1 weighted points to Cangrade
18% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Aon Assessment 30 · Cangrade 35
0.9 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Aon Assessment 25 · Cangrade 32
0.8 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Aon Assessment 25 · Cangrade 30
0.8 weighted points to Cangrade
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -9.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Aon Assessment minus Cangrade.
| Category | Weight | Aon Assessment | Cangrade | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 38 | 54 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 56 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 45 (F) | -10 | -9.7 |
§ 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 | Aon Assessment | Cangrade | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 3 | — |
| 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 10 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Aon Assessment has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Aon Assessment and Cangrade sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Aon Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Aon Assessment last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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