Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Criteria vs Spark Hire
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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
Substantial gaps
Video interview
The result
Criteria and Spark Hire tie at 53.
Criteria (Assessment) and Spark Hire (Video interview) tie at 53 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Criteria leads 4 of the 7 criteria and Spark Hire 3, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Criteria 48, Spark Hire 62) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 71% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Criteria4
- Spark Hire3
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency48 vs 62
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Criteria | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | 2012 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight38% of the movement so far
Criteria48Spark Hire622.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight68% of the movement so far
Criteria68Spark Hire582.0 weighted points to Criteria
- 3
Human Oversight Design
12% weight79% of the movement so far
Criteria56Spark Hire620.7 weighted points to Spark Hire
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight86% of the movement so far
Criteria42Spark Hire380.5 weighted points to Criteria
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight91% of the movement so far
Criteria60Spark Hire640.3 weighted points to Spark Hire
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight95% of the movement so far
Criteria32Spark Hire300.3 weighted points to Criteria
- 7
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Criteria62Spark Hire600.3 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus Spark Hire, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 53F | 53F | - | -0.5 |
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 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources 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; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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