§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads Canditech on all 7 criteria.
Apriora (Alex) finishes 18 points clear of Canditech under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 39 — across the Video interview and Assessment cohorts. Of the 7 criteria Canditech wins none, and the narrowest lead Apriora (Alex) holds is on Data Governance Disclosure, Apriora (Alex) 54 to Canditech 52. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Apriora (Alex) 83, Canditech 25) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 58% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
Canditech
Canditech is a skills-assessment and job-simulation platform that screens candidates with work-sample tests, technical and soft-skill assessments, and one-way video interviews, using AI agents to auto-score open-text and video responses.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Canditech under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Canditech |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IL |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Canditech 25
10.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Canditech 37
3.0 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Canditech 32
1.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Canditech 30
1.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Canditech 53
0.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Canditech 58
0.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Canditech 52
0.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +17.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Canditech.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Canditech | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 37 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 25 | +58 | +10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 53 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 32 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 39 (F) | +18 | +17.9 |
§ 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) | Canditech | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 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% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Sources 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; Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 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 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next