§ The result
PageUp leads Checkr by 10 points.
PageUp, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 10 points above Checkr, filed under Screening: 64 (D) against 54 (F) under rubric v1.0. PageUp leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Checkr leads 2, including Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Checkr 35, PageUp 80 — and at an 18% weight it carries 75% of the weighted advantage PageUp holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
§ The record
Checkr is filed under Screening AI, PageUp under ATS-integrated 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 | PageUp |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2014 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Checkr 35 · PageUp 80
8.1 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · PageUp 40
1.2 weighted points to PageUp
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Checkr 70 · PageUp 74
0.8 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · PageUp 55
0.6 weighted points to PageUp
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · PageUp 63
0.4 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · PageUp 64
0.2 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · PageUp 63
0.1 weighted points to PageUp
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus PageUp.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | PageUp | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 74 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 80 | -45 | -8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 63 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 64 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 63 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 64 (D) | -10 | -10.2 |
§ 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 | PageUp | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 0 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 4 | 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; PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for PageUp sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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