§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Crosschq by 17 points.
Eightfold AI finishes 17 points clear of Crosschq under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 47 (F) — across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. Eightfold AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Crosschq leads 2, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Crosschq 38, Eightfold AI 85) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 49% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Crosschq
Crosschq is a hiring-intelligence platform that combines automated 360 reference checks, an AI Interview Agent that conducts and scores voice/video screening interviews, AI resume matching and ranking, candidate-fraud and identity checks, Traitify personality and cognitive assessments, and quality-of-hire analytics.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
§ The record
Crosschq is filed under Screening AI, Eightfold AI under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Crosschq is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Crosschq | Eightfold AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Crosschq 38 · Eightfold AI 85
8.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Crosschq 50 · Eightfold AI 75
5.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Crosschq 30 · Eightfold AI 45
2.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Crosschq 40 · Eightfold AI 50
1.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Crosschq 58 · Eightfold AI 60
0.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Crosschq 62 · Eightfold AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Crosschq
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Crosschq 62 · Eightfold AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Crosschq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -16.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Crosschq minus Eightfold AI.
| Category | Weight | Crosschq | Eightfold AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 75 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 85 | -47 | -8.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 64 (D) | -17 | -16.8 |
§ 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 | Crosschq | Eightfold AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Crosschq has 43 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Crosschq and Eightfold AI 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: 43 for Crosschq, across 3 distinct source domains, and 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Crosschq last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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