§ The result
3 points separate Canditech and micro1.
Canditech holds a 3-point edge over micro1 under rubric v1.0, 39 to 36, across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Canditech leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while micro1 leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to micro1 — Canditech 37, micro1 50, on a 20% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage micro1 holds across the 1 criterion 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
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
§ The record
Canditech is filed under Assessment AI, micro1 under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Canditech | micro1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IL | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Canditech 37 · micro1 50
2.6 weighted points to micro1
15% weight · 46% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Canditech 30 · micro1 22
1.2 weighted points to Canditech
15% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Canditech 52 · micro1 45
1.1 weighted points to Canditech
8% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Canditech 58 · micro1 45
1.0 weighted points to Canditech
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Canditech 25 · micro1 20
0.9 weighted points to Canditech
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Canditech 32 · micro1 25
0.8 weighted points to Canditech
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Canditech 53 · micro1 48
0.6 weighted points to Canditech
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Canditech minus micro1.
| Category | Weight | Canditech | micro1 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 37 | 50 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 48 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 36 (F) | +3 | +3.0 |
§ 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 | micro1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for micro1 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next