§ The result
Checkr leads Prevue HR by 10 points.
Checkr, filed under Screening, comes out 10 points above Prevue HR, filed under Assessment: 54 against 44 under rubric v1.0. Prevue HR takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for Checkr, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Checkr 70, Prevue HR 45 — and at a 20% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage Checkr holds across the 6 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
Prevue HR
Prevue HR's psychometric platform tests candidates' aptitude, personality and motivations and compares the results with a custom role benchmark to produce a percentage Job Suitability score and Job-Fit report, alongside an optional applicant tracking system (APS Pro).
§ The record
Checkr is filed under Screening AI, Prevue HR under Assessment 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 Prevue HR is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Checkr | Prevue HR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 1994 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Checkr 70 · Prevue HR 45
5.0 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · Prevue HR 48
2.1 weighted points to Checkr
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Checkr 35 · Prevue HR 44
1.6 weighted points to Prevue HR
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · Prevue HR 54
1.4 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · Prevue HR 40
1.2 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · Prevue HR 58
0.8 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · Prevue HR 27
0.8 weighted points to Checkr
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.9 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 +9.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus Prevue HR.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | Prevue HR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 45 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 44 | -9 | -1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 27 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 54 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 44 (F) | +10 | +9.7 |
§ 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 | Prevue HR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 28 | 6 | Sources 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; Prevue HR has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Prevue HR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Prevue HR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Prevue HR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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