§ The result
3 points separate impress.ai and Aon Assessment.
impress.ai (Screening) edges Aon Assessment (Assessment) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 38 to 35. impress.ai leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while Aon Assessment leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Aon Assessment 38, impress.ai 55 — and at a 15% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage impress.ai holds across the 4 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
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment automation platform that uses conversational AI assistants, resume parsing and scoring, and structured competency-based screening to filter, rank and shortlist job candidates, integrating with enterprise ATS systems.
§ The record
Aon Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, impress.ai under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Aon Assessment | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | DE | SG |
| Founded | 2002 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Aon Assessment 38 · impress.ai 55
2.5 weighted points to impress.ai
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Aon Assessment 30 · impress.ai 22
1.4 weighted points to Aon Assessment
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Aon Assessment 40 · impress.ai 35
1.0 weighted points to Aon Assessment
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Aon Assessment 45 · impress.ai 52
0.8 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Aon Assessment 25 · impress.ai 32
0.8 weighted points to impress.ai
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Aon Assessment 48 · impress.ai 58
0.8 weighted points to impress.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -2.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Aon Assessment minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | Aon Assessment | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 38 (F) | -3 | -2.6 |
§ 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 | impress.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 18 | 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; impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 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 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Aon Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Aon Assessment last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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