§ The result
1 point separates Aon Assessment and Zappyhire.
Aon Assessment (Assessment) edges Zappyhire (Screening) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 35 to 34. Aon Assessment and Zappyhire each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split Aon Assessment holds (headed by Article 11 Technical Documentation) adds up to more weighted points. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Aon Assessment 40, Zappyhire 30 — and at a 20% weight it carries 77% of the weighted advantage Aon Assessment holds across the 3 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
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
Aon Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, Zappyhire 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 | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | IN |
| Founded | 2002 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Aon Assessment 40 · Zappyhire 30
2.0 weighted points to Aon Assessment
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Aon Assessment 38 · Zappyhire 42
0.6 weighted points to Zappyhire
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Aon Assessment 45 · Zappyhire 50
0.6 weighted points to Zappyhire
18% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Aon Assessment 30 · Zappyhire 28
0.4 weighted points to Aon Assessment
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Aon Assessment 25 · Zappyhire 28
0.4 weighted points to Zappyhire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Aon Assessment 48 · Zappyhire 45
0.2 weighted points to Aon Assessment
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Aon Assessment minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Aon Assessment | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 34 (F) | +1 | +1.0 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Aon Assessment and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Aon Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Aon Assessment last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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