§ The result
4 points separate HiPeople and Apriora (Alex).
HiPeople (Assessment) edges Apriora (Alex) (Video interview) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 61 (D) to 57 (F). HiPeople leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Apriora (Alex) leads 1, including FRIA Support. HiPeople takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Apriora (Alex) 52, HiPeople 62), which is 41% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, Apriora (Alex) 47 to HiPeople 60.
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
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, HiPeople 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) | HiPeople |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · HiPeople 62
2.0 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · HiPeople 60
1.6 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · HiPeople 58
0.6 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · HiPeople 35
0.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · HiPeople 66
0.3 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · HiPeople 62
0.2 weighted points to HiPeople
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · HiPeople 84
0.2 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus HiPeople.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | HiPeople | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 84 | -1 | -0.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 60 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 66 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 61 (D) | -4 | -4.5 |
§ 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) | HiPeople | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 2 | 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 | 5 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources 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; HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) and HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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