§ The result
Cappfinity leads Zappyhire on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Cappfinity scores 40 and Zappyhire 34 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Cappfinity leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Zappyhire is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Cappfinity leads is Human Oversight Design, Cappfinity 52 to Zappyhire 50. Customer Documentation is the widest raw gap (Cappfinity 56, Zappyhire 45) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (Cappfinity 52, Zappyhire 42), 27% of the weighted advantage Cappfinity builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Cappfinity is filed under Assessment AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Cappfinity | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 2005 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · Zappyhire 42
1.5 weighted points to Cappfinity
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · Zappyhire 30
1.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cappfinity 38 · Zappyhire 28
1.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · Zappyhire 45
0.9 weighted points to Cappfinity
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cappfinity 28 · Zappyhire 25
0.4 weighted points to Cappfinity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cappfinity 52 · Zappyhire 50
0.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 45 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 34 (F) | +6 | +5.5 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cappfinity and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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