§ The result
Fuel50 takes the total, Ashby takes more of the criteria.
Fuel50 holds a 2-point edge over Ashby under rubric v1.0, 58 to 56, across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Ashby leads more of the criteria, 4 against 3 for Fuel50, yet Fuel50 takes Article 11 Technical Documentation, which carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. FRIA Support is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Ashby — Ashby 42, Fuel50 32, on a 15% weight — which is 77% of the weighted advantage Ashby holds across the 4 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
Fuel50
Fuel50 is an AI internal talent marketplace and workforce-transformation platform that matches employees to internal roles, gigs, mentors, learning and career paths, and fit-scores and ranks internal candidates for open roles and succession pipelines, using a skills ontology curated by in-house I/O psychologists.
§ The record
Ashby is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Fuel50 under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Fuel50 is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ashby | Fuel50 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 28% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ashby 42 · Fuel50 32
1.5 weighted points to Ashby
20% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ashby 63 · Fuel50 70
1.4 weighted points to Fuel50
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ashby 62 · Fuel50 68
1.1 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ashby 58 · Fuel50 64
0.9 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ashby 42 · Fuel50 40
0.2 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ashby 62 · Fuel50 61
0.1 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ashby 63 · Fuel50 62
0.1 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -1.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus Fuel50.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | Fuel50 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 70 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 68 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 32 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 58 (F) | -2 | -1.4 |
§ 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 | Fuel50 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | 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 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 4 | 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; Fuel50 has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Fuel50 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 28 for Fuel50, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Fuel50 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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