Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Canditech vs Pillar
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.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
1 point separates Pillar and Canditech.
Pillar (Screening) edges Canditech (Assessment) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 40 to 39. Canditech and Pillar each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split Pillar holds (headed by Bias Audit Transparency) adds up to more weighted points. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Canditech 25, Pillar 38) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 68% of the weighted advantage Pillar holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Canditech3
- Pillar3
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency25 vs 38
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Canditech is filed under Assessment AI, Pillar under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Canditech | Pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IL | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2019 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight41% of the movement so far
Canditech25Pillar382.3 weighted points to Pillar
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight59% of the movement so far
Canditech52Pillar451.1 weighted points to Canditech
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight76% of the movement so far
Canditech37Pillar421.0 weighted points to Pillar
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight87% of the movement so far
Canditech58Pillar500.6 weighted points to Canditech
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight98% of the movement so far
Canditech53Pillar480.6 weighted points to Canditech
- 6
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Canditech32Pillar330.1 weighted points to Pillar
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Canditech minus Pillar, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Canditech | Pillar | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 37 | 42 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 48 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 33 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 39F | 40F | -1 | -1.2 |
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 | Pillar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 7 | 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; Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 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 Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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