§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads Crosschq by 10 points.
Apriora (Alex), filed under Video interview, comes out 10 points above Crosschq, filed under Screening: 57 against 47 under rubric v1.0. Apriora (Alex) leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Crosschq leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Apriora (Alex) 83, Crosschq 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 77% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 4 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
Crosschq
Crosschq is a hiring-intelligence platform that combines automated 360 reference checks, an AI Interview Agent that conducts and scores voice/video screening interviews, AI resume matching and ranking, candidate-fraud and identity checks, Traitify personality and cognitive assessments, and quality-of-hire analytics.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Crosschq under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | Crosschq |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Crosschq 38
8.1 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Crosschq 30
1.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Crosschq 40
0.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Crosschq 58
0.6 weighted points to Crosschq
20% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Crosschq 50
0.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Crosschq 62
0.2 weighted points to Crosschq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +9.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Crosschq.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Crosschq | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 38 | +45 | +8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 40 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 47 (F) | +10 | +9.7 |
§ 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) | Crosschq | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources 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 | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 38 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Crosschq has 43 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) and Crosschq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 43 for Crosschq, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Crosschq last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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