§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads micro1 on all 7 criteria.
Apriora (Alex) finishes 21 points clear of micro1 under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 36 — across the Video interview and Screening cohorts. Of the 7 criteria micro1 wins none, and the narrowest lead Apriora (Alex) holds is on Article 11 Technical Documentation, Apriora (Alex) 52 to micro1 50. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Apriora (Alex) 83, micro1 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 54% 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
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, micro1 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) | micro1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · micro1 20
11.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · micro1 25
2.6 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · micro1 22
2.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · micro1 48
1.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · micro1 45
1.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · micro1 45
1.3 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · micro1 50
0.4 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +20.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus micro1.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | micro1 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 20 | +63 | +11.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 22 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 45 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 48 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 25 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 36 (F) | +21 | +20.9 |
§ 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) | micro1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 2 | 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 | 25 | 8 | 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; micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) and micro1 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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