§ The result
HiringBranch leads Canditech by 13 points.
HiringBranch sits 13 points above Canditech under rubric v1.0, 52 against 39, with both filed under Assessment. HiringBranch leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Canditech leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Canditech 25, HiringBranch 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
Canditech and HiringBranch are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Canditech | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IL | CA |
| Founded | 2019 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Canditech 25 · HiringBranch 60
6.3 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Canditech 37 · HiringBranch 60
4.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Canditech 32 · HiringBranch 40
1.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Canditech 30 · HiringBranch 35
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Canditech 58 · HiringBranch 64
0.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Canditech 52 · HiringBranch 55
0.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Canditech 53 · HiringBranch 52
0.1 weighted points to Canditech
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Canditech minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | Canditech | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 37 | 60 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 60 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 52 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 52 (F) | -13 | -13.4 |
§ 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 | Canditech | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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