§ The result
Darwinbox leads Aon Assessment by 11 points.
Darwinbox sits 11 points above Aon Assessment under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 35 — with Darwinbox filed under ATS-integrated and Aon Assessment under Assessment. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Darwinbox: Darwinbox is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Aon Assessment on Bias Audit Transparency. The advantage Darwinbox holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Aon Assessment 40, Darwinbox 60, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 37% of the weighted points Darwinbox gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
§ The record
Aon Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, Darwinbox under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Aon Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Aon Assessment | Darwinbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | IN |
| Founded | 2002 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Aon Assessment 40 · Darwinbox 60
4.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Aon Assessment 38 · Darwinbox 58
3.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Aon Assessment 45 · Darwinbox 55
1.2 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Aon Assessment 25 · Darwinbox 35
1.2 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Aon Assessment 25 · Darwinbox 30
0.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Aon Assessment 48 · Darwinbox 57
0.7 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Aon Assessment 30 · Darwinbox 28
0.4 weighted points to Aon Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -10.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Aon Assessment minus Darwinbox.
| Category | Weight | Aon Assessment | Darwinbox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 38 | 58 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 57 | -9 | -0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 46 (F) | -11 | -10.5 |
§ 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 | Darwinbox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 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 | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Aon Assessment has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Aon Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Aon Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Aon Assessment last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next