§ The result
HiPeople leads Cangrade on all 7 criteria.
HiPeople finishes 16 points clear of Cangrade inside the Assessment cohort under rubric v1.0: 61 (D) against 45 (F). HiPeople leads every one of the 7 criteria, Cangrade none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Cangrade 54 to HiPeople 58. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cangrade 35, HiPeople 84 — and at an 18% weight it carries 53% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 7 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
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
§ The record
Cangrade and HiPeople are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cangrade | HiPeople |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cangrade 35 · HiPeople 84
8.8 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cangrade 32 · HiPeople 60
3.4 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cangrade 52 · HiPeople 62
2.0 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cangrade 30 · HiPeople 35
0.8 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cangrade 56 · HiPeople 62
0.7 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cangrade 54 · HiPeople 58
0.6 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cangrade 62 · HiPeople 66
0.3 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cangrade minus HiPeople.
| Category | Weight | Cangrade | HiPeople | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 84 | -49 | -8.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 60 | -28 | -3.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 66 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 61 (D) | -16 | -16.6 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 3 | — | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 10 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 8 | 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; HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cangrade and HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains, and 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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