§ The result
HiringBranch leads Aon Assessment on all 7 criteria.
HiringBranch finishes 17 points clear of Aon Assessment inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 52 against 35. HiringBranch leads every one of the 7 criteria, Aon Assessment none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Aon Assessment 45 to HiringBranch 52. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Aon Assessment 30, HiringBranch 60, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 31% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch 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
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
Aon Assessment and HiringBranch are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: 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 | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | CA |
| Founded | 2002 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Aon Assessment 30 · HiringBranch 60
5.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Aon Assessment 40 · HiringBranch 60
4.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Aon Assessment 38 · HiringBranch 55
2.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Aon Assessment 25 · HiringBranch 40
1.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Aon Assessment 25 · HiringBranch 35
1.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Aon Assessment 48 · HiringBranch 64
1.3 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Aon Assessment 45 · HiringBranch 52
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Aon Assessment minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | Aon Assessment | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 40 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 64 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 52 (F) | -17 | -17.4 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources 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; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 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 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Aon Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Aon Assessment last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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