§ The result
Ceipal leads Emi on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Ceipal holds a 2-point edge over Emi under rubric v1.0, 35 to 33, across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Emi is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Ceipal takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Ceipal 30 to Emi 28. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Ceipal 53, Emi 48) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Ceipal 30, Emi 28), the second being 19% of the weighted advantage Ceipal holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
Vendor profile
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
§ The record
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Emi under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Emi is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ceipal | Emi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AR |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 19% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Emi 28
0.4 weighted points to Ceipal
8% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Emi 48
0.4 weighted points to Ceipal
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Emi 18
0.4 weighted points to Ceipal
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Emi 35
0.4 weighted points to Ceipal
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Emi 44
0.3 weighted points to Ceipal
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Emi 44
0.2 weighted points to Ceipal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +2.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Emi.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Emi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 18 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 44 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 44 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 48 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 33 (F) | +2 | +2.1 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | Emi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emi 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: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next