§ The result
Paradox takes the total, Cappfinity takes more of the criteria.
Paradox holds a 1-point edge over Cappfinity under rubric v1.0, 41 to 40, across the Scheduling and Assessment cohorts. Cappfinity leads more of the criteria, 5 against 2 for Paradox, yet Paradox takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cappfinity 28, Paradox 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 83% of the weighted advantage Paradox holds across the 2 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
Paradox
Conversational AI ("Olivia") that screens, schedules, and engages candidates over chat and SMS, often deployed on top of an existing ATS.
§ The record
Cappfinity is filed under Assessment AI, Paradox under Scheduling AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Cappfinity is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cappfinity | Paradox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2005 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cappfinity 28 · Paradox 50
4.0 weighted points to Paradox
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · Paradox 45
1.1 weighted points to Cappfinity
8% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · Paradox 45
0.9 weighted points to Cappfinity
20% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · Paradox 40
0.8 weighted points to Paradox
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cappfinity 28 · Paradox 25
0.4 weighted points to Cappfinity
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cappfinity 38 · Paradox 35
0.4 weighted points to Cappfinity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cappfinity 52 · Paradox 50
0.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus Paradox.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | Paradox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 40 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 45 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 41 (F) | -1 | -1.8 |
§ 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 | Cappfinity | Paradox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources 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; Paradox has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cappfinity and Paradox sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 10 for Paradox, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paradox last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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