§ The result
Checkr leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
Checkr finishes 24 points clear of XOR inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 54 against 30. Checkr leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; XOR leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Checkr 70, XOR 20 — and at a 20% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Checkr holds across the 7 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
Checkr and XOR 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 | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Checkr 70 · XOR 20
10.0 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · XOR 40
3.1 weighted points to Checkr
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Checkr 35 · XOR 18
3.1 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · XOR 42
3.0 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · XOR 33
2.0 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · XOR 48
1.6 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · XOR 25
1.1 weighted points to Checkr
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +23.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 23.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +24 beside that +23.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 20 | +50 | +10.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 18 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 40 | +26 | +3.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 33 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 48 | +20 | +1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 30 (F) | +24 | +23.9 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | 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; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
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