§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Arctic Shores by 18 points.
Eightfold AI finishes 18 points clear of Arctic Shores under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 46 (F) — across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Eightfold AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Arctic Shores leads 1, including Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Arctic Shores 35, Eightfold AI 85 — and at an 18% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Arctic Shores
Arctic Shores sells a task-based psychometric assessment platform ("Una") that scores candidates on behaviour captured during short interactive tasks - covering personality, workplace intelligence and learning agility - rather than self-report questionnaires or CV review.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
§ The record
Arctic Shores is filed under Assessment AI, Eightfold AI under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Arctic Shores is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arctic Shores | Eightfold AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arctic Shores 35 · Eightfold AI 85
9.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arctic Shores 50 · Eightfold AI 75
5.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arctic Shores 30 · Eightfold AI 50
2.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arctic Shores 35 · Eightfold AI 45
1.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arctic Shores 56 · Eightfold AI 60
0.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arctic Shores 57 · Eightfold AI 60
0.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arctic Shores 64 · Eightfold AI 60
0.3 weighted points to Arctic Shores
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.1 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 -18.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arctic Shores minus Eightfold AI.
| Category | Weight | Arctic Shores | Eightfold AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 75 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 85 | -50 | -9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 60 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 64 (D) | -18 | -18.5 |
§ 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 | Arctic Shores | Eightfold AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Arctic Shores has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Eightfold AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Arctic Shores, across 1 distinct source domain, and 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arctic Shores last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next