§ The result
Darwinbox leads Emi on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Darwinbox, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 13 points above Emi, filed under Screening: 46 against 33 under rubric v1.0. Emi is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Darwinbox takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Darwinbox 30 to Emi 25. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Darwinbox 60, Emi 28 — and at a 20% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
Vendor profile
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Emi under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Darwinbox | Emi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | AR |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · Emi 28
6.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · Emi 44
2.1 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · Emi 18
1.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · Emi 44
1.3 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · Emi 25
0.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · Emi 48
0.7 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +13.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus Emi.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | Emi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 28 | +32 | +6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 18 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 44 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 44 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 48 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 33 (F) | +13 | +13.1 |
§ 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 | Darwinbox | Emi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next