§ The result
Darwinbox leads Canditech by 7 points.
Darwinbox scores 46 and Canditech 39 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Darwinbox leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Canditech leads 1, including Customer Documentation, and 1 is level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Canditech 37, Darwinbox 60) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 69% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Canditech
Canditech is a skills-assessment and job-simulation platform that screens candidates with work-sample tests, technical and soft-skill assessments, and one-way video interviews, using AI agents to auto-score open-text and video responses.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
§ The record
Canditech is filed under Assessment AI, Darwinbox under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Canditech is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Canditech | Darwinbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IL | IN |
| Founded | 2019 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Canditech 37 · Darwinbox 60
4.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Canditech 52 · Darwinbox 58
0.9 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Canditech 25 · Darwinbox 28
0.5 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Canditech 32 · Darwinbox 35
0.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Canditech 53 · Darwinbox 55
0.2 weighted points to Darwinbox
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Canditech 58 · Darwinbox 57
0.1 weighted points to Canditech
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Canditech minus Darwinbox.
| Category | Weight | Canditech | Darwinbox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 37 | 60 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 55 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 46 (F) | -7 | -6.6 |
§ 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 | Canditech | Darwinbox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next