§ The result
Classet leads Paradox on all 7 criteria.
Classet, filed under Screening, comes out 14 points above Paradox, filed under Scheduling: 55 against 41 under rubric v1.0. Classet takes all 7 criteria and Paradox none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Classet 55 to Paradox 50. The advantage Classet holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Classet 76, Paradox 50, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 34% of the weighted points Classet gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
Paradox
Conversational AI ("Olivia") that screens, schedules, and engages candidates over chat and SMS, often deployed on top of an existing ATS.
§ The record
Classet is filed under Screening AI, Paradox under Scheduling 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 | Classet | Paradox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Classet 76 · Paradox 50
4.7 weighted points to Classet
12% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Classet 58 · Paradox 35
2.8 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Classet 57 · Paradox 45
1.8 weighted points to Classet
8% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Classet 62 · Paradox 45
1.4 weighted points to Classet
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Classet 46 · Paradox 40
1.2 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Classet 33 · Paradox 25
1.2 weighted points to Classet
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Classet 55 · Paradox 50
0.6 weighted points to Classet
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Classet minus Paradox.
| Category | Weight | Classet | Paradox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 46 | 40 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 76 | 50 | +26 | +4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 25 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 45 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 41 (F) | +14 | +13.6 |
§ 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 | Classet | Paradox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Classet has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Paradox has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Classet and Paradox sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for Classet, across 3 distinct source domains, and 10 for Paradox, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Classet last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paradox last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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