§ The result
Ashby leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Ashby (ATS-integrated) opens a 22-point lead on HireQuotient (Sourcing), 56 to 34. HireQuotient leads none of the 7 criteria, and Ashby is ahead on 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. The advantage Ashby holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Ashby 62, HireQuotient 18, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 36% of the weighted points Ashby gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
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
Ashby is filed under ATS-integrated AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Scheduling and Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ashby | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2018 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ashby 62 · HireQuotient 18
7.9 weighted points to Ashby
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ashby 63 · HireQuotient 35
5.6 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ashby 42 · HireQuotient 22
3.0 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ashby 58 · HireQuotient 40
2.7 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ashby 42 · HireQuotient 30
1.4 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ashby 63 · HireQuotient 50
1.0 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ashby 62 · HireQuotient 57
0.6 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +22.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +22 beside that +22.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 35 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 18 | +44 | +7.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 22 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 34 (F) | +22 | +22.3 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next