§ The result
Spark Hire leads Ceipal on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Spark Hire finishes 18 points clear of Ceipal under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 35 — across the Video interview and ATS-integrated cohorts. Spark Hire leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Ceipal is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Spark Hire leads is FRIA Support, Ceipal 25 to Spark Hire 30. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 20, Spark Hire 62 — and at an 18% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Spark Hire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ceipal | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Spark Hire 62
7.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Spark Hire 58
5.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Spark Hire 60
2.1 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Spark Hire 62
1.9 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Spark Hire 64
0.9 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Spark Hire 30
0.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -18.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 58 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 62 | -42 | -7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 64 | -11 | -0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 53 (F) | -18 | -18.8 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources 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; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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