§ The result
Classet takes the total, Checkr takes more of the criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Classet and Checkr finish 1 point apart, 55 to 54, as two Screening entries. Checkr leads more of the criteria than Classet — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Classet leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Classet. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Checkr 35, Classet 76) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 87% of the weighted advantage Classet holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Checkr
Checkr is an FCRA-regulated background screening platform that uses machine learning to parse, classify and standardize criminal, employment, education and motor-vehicle records, and to route them through customer-configured adjudication rulesets that flag candidates as eligible, review or escalated for employment decisions.
Vendor profile
Classet
Classet's AI voice recruiter, Joy, phones hourly and frontline applicants within about a minute of applying, runs employer-scripted screening interviews with binary knockout questions, and sends recruiters recordings, transcripts, summaries and a qualified/unqualified outcome, either in Classet's lightweight ATS or in 100+ connected ATSs.
§ The record
Checkr and Classet are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Checkr | Classet |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Checkr 35 · Classet 76
7.4 weighted points to Classet
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Checkr 70 · Classet 46
4.8 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · Classet 55
1.3 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · Classet 58
1.0 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · Classet 57
0.8 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · Classet 62
0.5 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · Classet 33
0.1 weighted points to Classet
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.8 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 -1.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus Classet.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | Classet | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 46 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 76 | -41 | -7.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 33 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 55 (F) | -1 | -1.1 |
§ 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 | Checkr | Classet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 33 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Classet has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Classet sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 38 for Classet, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Classet last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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