§ The result
HiringBranch leads Cappfinity on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Assessment entries HiringBranch and Cappfinity at 52 and 40, a gap of 12 points. Cappfinity is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: HiringBranch takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Post-Market Monitoring, Cappfinity 38 to HiringBranch 40. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cappfinity 28, HiringBranch 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 6 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
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
Cappfinity and HiringBranch 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 | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | CA |
| Founded | 2005 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cappfinity 28 · HiringBranch 60
5.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · HiringBranch 60
4.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cappfinity 28 · HiringBranch 35
1.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · HiringBranch 64
0.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · HiringBranch 55
0.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cappfinity 38 · HiringBranch 40
0.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -12.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -12.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 60 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 60 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 64 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 52 (F) | -12 | -12.9 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Cappfinity has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cappfinity sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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