§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Cangrade by 19 points.
Eightfold AI finishes 19 points clear of Cangrade under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 45 (F) — across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Eightfold AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Cangrade leads 1, including Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cangrade 35, Eightfold AI 85 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 6 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
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
§ The record
Cangrade is filed under Assessment AI, Eightfold AI under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Cangrade is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cangrade | Eightfold AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cangrade 35 · Eightfold AI 85
9.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cangrade 52 · Eightfold AI 75
4.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cangrade 30 · Eightfold AI 45
2.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cangrade 32 · Eightfold AI 50
2.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cangrade 54 · Eightfold AI 60
0.9 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cangrade 56 · Eightfold AI 60
0.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cangrade 62 · Eightfold AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Cangrade
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cangrade minus Eightfold AI.
| Category | Weight | Cangrade | Eightfold AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 75 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 85 | -50 | -9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 60 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 50 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 64 (D) | -19 | -19.2 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | Eightfold AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 3 | — | 3 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 10 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 2 | 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; Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cangrade and Eightfold AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains, and 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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