§ The result
Criteria leads hireEZ by 11 points.
Criteria sits 11 points above hireEZ under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 42 — with Criteria filed under Assessment and hireEZ under Sourcing. Criteria leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while hireEZ leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Criteria 68, hireEZ 38 — and at a 20% weight it carries 53% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
Vendor profile
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
§ The record
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, hireEZ under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Criteria is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | hireEZ |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · hireEZ 38
6.0 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · hireEZ 30
3.2 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · hireEZ 25
1.1 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · hireEZ 38
0.5 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · hireEZ 60
0.3 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · hireEZ 58
0.2 weighted points to hireEZ
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · hireEZ 58
0.2 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.0 — 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 +11 beside that +11.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus hireEZ.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | hireEZ | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 38 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 30 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 42 (F) | +11 | +11.0 |
§ 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 | Criteria | hireEZ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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