§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Ashby by 8 points.
Eightfold AI scores 64 (D) and Ashby 56 (F) under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Eightfold AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Ashby leads 2, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ashby 62, Eightfold AI 85 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform combining applicant tracking, CRM/sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, with embedded AI features including resume-to-criteria evaluation, AI-assisted application review, sourcing outreach, and scheduling agents.
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
Ashby is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Eightfold AI under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Ashby is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ashby | Eightfold AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ashby 62 · Eightfold AI 85
4.1 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ashby 63 · Eightfold AI 75
2.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ashby 42 · Eightfold AI 50
1.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ashby 42 · Eightfold AI 45
0.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ashby 58 · Eightfold AI 60
0.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ashby 62 · Eightfold AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ashby 63 · Eightfold AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus Eightfold AI.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | Eightfold AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 75 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 85 | -23 | -4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 64 (D) | -8 | -7.8 |
§ 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 | Ashby | Eightfold AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 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 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next