§ The result
Cangrade leads HireQuotient by 11 points.
Cangrade, filed under Assessment, comes out 11 points above HireQuotient, filed under Sourcing: 45 against 34 under rubric v1.0. Cangrade leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while HireQuotient leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. The advantage Cangrade holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cangrade 52, HireQuotient 35, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 31% of the weighted points Cangrade gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
Cangrade is filed under Assessment AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 3 secondary categories: Screening, Video interview and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cangrade | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2014 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cangrade 52 · HireQuotient 35
3.4 weighted points to Cangrade
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cangrade 35 · HireQuotient 18
3.1 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cangrade 54 · HireQuotient 40
2.1 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cangrade 30 · HireQuotient 22
1.2 weighted points to Cangrade
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cangrade 62 · HireQuotient 50
1.0 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cangrade 32 · HireQuotient 30
0.2 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cangrade 56 · HireQuotient 57
0.1 weighted points to HireQuotient
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +10.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cangrade minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Cangrade | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 18 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 40 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 57 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 34 (F) | +11 | +10.8 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 3 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 documented absences; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cangrade sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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