§ The result
Arctic Shores leads HireQuotient by 12 points.
Arctic Shores, filed under Assessment, comes out 12 points above HireQuotient, filed under Sourcing: 46 against 34 under rubric v1.0. Arctic Shores leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while HireQuotient leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Arctic Shores 35, HireQuotient 18, 18% weight), is only 26% of the weighted advantage Arctic Shores builds across the 5 criteria it leads.
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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
Arctic Shores is filed under Assessment AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arctic Shores | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | SG |
| Founded | 2013 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arctic Shores 35 · HireQuotient 18
3.1 weighted points to Arctic Shores
20% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arctic Shores 50 · HireQuotient 35
3.0 weighted points to Arctic Shores
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arctic Shores 57 · HireQuotient 40
2.5 weighted points to Arctic Shores
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arctic Shores 35 · HireQuotient 22
1.9 weighted points to Arctic Shores
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arctic Shores 64 · HireQuotient 50
1.1 weighted points to Arctic Shores
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arctic Shores 56 · HireQuotient 57
0.1 weighted points to HireQuotient
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +11.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +11.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arctic Shores minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Arctic Shores | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 18 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 22 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 57 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 34 (F) | +12 | +11.6 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Arctic Shores has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Arctic Shores, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arctic Shores last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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