§ The result
Ashby leads Emmersion on all 7 criteria.
Ashby, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 12 points above Emmersion, filed under Assessment: 56 against 44 under rubric v1.0. Of the 7 criteria Emmersion wins none, and the narrowest lead Ashby holds is on Customer Documentation, Ashby 63 to Emmersion 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ashby 62, Emmersion 28 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage Ashby holds across the 7 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
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
§ The record
Ashby is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Emmersion under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Emmersion is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ashby | Emmersion |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ashby 62 · Emmersion 28
6.1 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ashby 42 · Emmersion 30
1.8 weighted points to Ashby
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ashby 63 · Emmersion 57
1.2 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ashby 58 · Emmersion 50
1.2 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ashby 62 · Emmersion 53
1.1 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ashby 42 · Emmersion 38
0.5 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ashby 63 · Emmersion 60
0.2 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.1 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 +12.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus Emmersion.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | Emmersion | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 57 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 28 | +34 | +6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 53 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 44 (F) | +12 | +12.1 |
§ 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 | Emmersion | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 35 | 5 | Sources 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; Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emmersion sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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