Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Criteria vs HiringBranch
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.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
1 point separates Criteria and HiringBranch.
Criteria holds a 1-point edge over HiringBranch under rubric v1.0, 53 to 52, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Criteria: Criteria is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and HiringBranch on Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to HiringBranch — Criteria 48, HiringBranch 60, on an 18% weight — which is 74% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Criteria4
- HiringBranch3
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency48 vs 60
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Criteria and HiringBranch are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Criteria | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2006 | 2014 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight34% of the movement so far
Criteria48HiringBranch602.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight60% of the movement so far
Criteria68HiringBranch601.6 weighted points to Criteria
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight76% of the movement so far
Criteria62HiringBranch551.1 weighted points to Criteria
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight84% of the movement so far
Criteria56HiringBranch520.5 weighted points to Criteria
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight91% of the movement so far
Criteria32HiringBranch350.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight96% of the movement so far
Criteria60HiringBranch640.3 weighted points to HiringBranch
- 7
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Criteria42HiringBranch400.2 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.4.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus HiringBranch, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 53F | 52F | +1 | +0.4 |
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 | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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