§ The result
Apriora (Alex) takes the total, Ashby takes more of the criteria.
Apriora (Alex) (Video interview) edges Ashby (ATS-integrated) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 57 to 56. Ashby leads more of the criteria than Apriora (Alex) — 5 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Apriora (Alex) leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Apriora (Alex). Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Apriora (Alex) 83, Ashby 62 — and at an 18% weight it carries 86% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
Vendor profile
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform combining applicant tracking, CRM/sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, with embedded AI features including resume-to-criteria evaluation, AI-assisted application review, sourcing outreach, and scheduling agents.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Ashby under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Apriora (Alex) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Ashby |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Ashby 62
3.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Ashby 63
2.2 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Ashby 42
0.6 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Ashby 58
0.6 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Ashby 42
0.6 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Ashby 62
0.2 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Ashby 63
0.1 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 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 +0.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Ashby.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Ashby | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 63 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 62 | +21 | +3.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 42 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 63 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 56 (F) | +1 | +0.7 |
§ 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 | Apriora (Alex) | Ashby | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) 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: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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