§ The result
4 points separate Emmersion and Cappfinity.
Emmersion holds a 4-point edge over Cappfinity under rubric v1.0, 44 to 40, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of Emmersion, with 2 level: Emmersion is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Cappfinity on Data Governance Disclosure. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cappfinity 36, Emmersion 57 — and at a 20% weight it carries 85% of the weighted advantage Emmersion holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Cappfinity
Cappfinity sells strengths-, skills- and cognitive-reasoning assessments, task-based job simulations, a digital assessment centre and an asynchronous video interview platform with optional AI-assisted scoring, and is used mainly for graduate and early-careers hiring.
Vendor profile
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
§ The record
Cappfinity and Emmersion are both filed under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Cappfinity | Emmersion |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2005 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · Emmersion 57
4.2 weighted points to Emmersion
8% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · Emmersion 60
0.3 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cappfinity 28 · Emmersion 30
0.3 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · Emmersion 50
0.3 weighted points to Cappfinity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cappfinity 52 · Emmersion 53
0.1 weighted points to Emmersion
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -4.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus Emmersion.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | Emmersion | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 57 | -21 | -4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 53 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 44 (F) | -4 | -4.6 |
§ 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 | Cappfinity | Emmersion | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cappfinity has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cappfinity and Emmersion sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 76 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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