§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Apriora (Alex) (Video interview) opens a 24-point lead on Emi (Screening), 57 to 33. Apriora (Alex) takes all 7 criteria and Emi none of them; the nearest contest is Data Governance Disclosure, Apriora (Alex) 54 to Emi 44. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Apriora (Alex) 83, Emi 18 — and at an 18% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 7 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
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, Emi under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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) | Emi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AR |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · Emi 18
11.7 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · Emi 28
4.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · Emi 25
1.9 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · Emi 44
1.9 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · Emi 44
1.5 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · Emi 35
1.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · Emi 48
1.1 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +24.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +24 beside that +24.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus Emi.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | Emi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 28 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 18 | +65 | +11.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 44 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 44 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 35 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 33 (F) | +24 | +24.4 |
§ 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) | Emi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | — |
| 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | 19 | 7 | 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; Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) and Emi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next