§ The result
Criteria leads HireQuotient by 19 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Criteria (Assessment) opens a 19-point lead on HireQuotient (Sourcing), 53 to 34. HireQuotient takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 6 for Criteria, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Criteria 68, HireQuotient 35, 20% weight), is only 35% of the weighted advantage Criteria builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2006 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · HireQuotient 35
6.6 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · HireQuotient 18
5.4 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · HireQuotient 40
3.3 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · HireQuotient 22
1.5 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · HireQuotient 30
1.4 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · HireQuotient 50
0.8 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · HireQuotient 57
0.1 weighted points to HireQuotient
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +19 beside that +18.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 35 | +33 | +6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 18 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 22 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 57 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 34 (F) | +19 | +18.9 |
§ 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 | Criteria | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 24 | 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; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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