§ The result
1 point separates Cangrade and ConverzAI.
Cangrade holds a 1-point edge over ConverzAI under rubric v1.0, 45 to 44, across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Cangrade, with 1 level: Cangrade is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and ConverzAI on Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to ConverzAI — Cangrade 35, ConverzAI 72, on an 18% weight — which is 76% of the weighted advantage ConverzAI holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
Vendor profile
ConverzAI
ConverzAI's Virtual Recruiter is an agentic voice, SMS and email AI agent for staffing firms. It contacts applicants within minutes, runs role-specific screening interviews, scores candidates' fit to open jobs and updates the firm's ATS.
§ The record
Cangrade is filed under Assessment AI, ConverzAI under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Cangrade is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cangrade | ConverzAI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cangrade 35 · ConverzAI 72
6.7 weighted points to ConverzAI
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cangrade 52 · ConverzAI 30
4.4 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cangrade 32 · ConverzAI 50
2.2 weighted points to ConverzAI
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cangrade 54 · ConverzAI 40
2.1 weighted points to Cangrade
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cangrade 62 · ConverzAI 45
1.4 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cangrade 56 · ConverzAI 45
1.3 weighted points to Cangrade
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.0 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 +0.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cangrade minus ConverzAI.
| Category | Weight | Cangrade | ConverzAI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 72 | -37 | -6.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 40 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 45 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 50 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 44 (F) | +1 | +0.4 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | ConverzAI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 3 | — | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 10 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 documented absences; ConverzAI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cangrade and ConverzAI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains, and 30 for ConverzAI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ConverzAI last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next