§ The result
3 points separate Criteria and Indeed.
Criteria holds a 3-point edge over Indeed under rubric v1.0, 53 to 50, across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Criteria leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Indeed leads 3, including FRIA Support. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Criteria 68, Indeed 58 — and at a 20% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 4 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
Indeed
Job marketplace whose employer-side AI (the Talent Scout agent, Sourcing Assistant, Smart Screening and candidate matching) sources, ranks and scores candidates from Indeed's profile pool and applicant flow and drafts outreach to them.
§ The record
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, Indeed 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 | Indeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · Indeed 58
2.0 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · Indeed 38
1.8 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · Indeed 38
0.9 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · Indeed 63
0.8 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · Indeed 58
0.6 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · Indeed 64
0.3 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · Indeed 40
0.2 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus Indeed.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Indeed | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 38 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 63 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 50 (F) | +3 | +2.6 |
§ 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 | Criteria | Indeed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Indeed has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Indeed sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 40 for Indeed, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Indeed last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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