§ The result
Criteria leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Criteria finishes 19 points clear of Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 34 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Criteria leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Zappyhire leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Criteria 68, Zappyhire 30 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 7 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: 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 | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2006 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · Zappyhire 30
7.6 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · Zappyhire 28
3.6 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · Zappyhire 42
3.0 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · Zappyhire 28
1.7 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · Zappyhire 45
1.2 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · Zappyhire 25
1.1 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · Zappyhire 50
0.7 weighted points to Criteria
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 18.9 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 Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 30 | +38 | +7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 28 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 28 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.2 |
| 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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