§ The result
Checkr leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
Checkr finishes 20 points clear of HireQuotient under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 34 — across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Checkr leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; HireQuotient leads none. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Checkr 70, HireQuotient 35, 20% weight), is only 35% of the weighted advantage Checkr builds across the 7 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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
Checkr is filed under Screening AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing 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. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Checkr | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2014 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Checkr 70 · HireQuotient 35
7.0 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · HireQuotient 40
3.3 weighted points to Checkr
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Checkr 35 · HireQuotient 18
3.1 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · HireQuotient 30
2.4 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · HireQuotient 22
1.5 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · HireQuotient 50
1.4 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · HireQuotient 57
1.1 weighted points to Checkr
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +19.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 35 | +35 | +7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 18 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 22 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 57 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 50 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 34 (F) | +20 | +19.8 |
§ 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 | Checkr | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next