§ The result
Darwinbox takes the total, hireEZ takes more of the criteria.
Darwinbox (ATS-integrated) edges hireEZ (Sourcing) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 42. hireEZ leads more of the criteria than Darwinbox — 5 to 2 — but Article 11 Technical Documentation, which Darwinbox leads, carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Darwinbox. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Darwinbox 60, hireEZ 38) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 85% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
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
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, hireEZ under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Darwinbox | hireEZ |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · hireEZ 38
4.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · hireEZ 25
0.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · hireEZ 30
0.4 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · hireEZ 58
0.4 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · hireEZ 38
0.4 weighted points to hireEZ
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · hireEZ 60
0.3 weighted points to hireEZ
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · hireEZ 58
0.1 weighted points to hireEZ
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.7 — 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 +4 beside that +3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus hireEZ.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | hireEZ | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 38 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 42 (F) | +4 | +3.7 |
§ 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 | hireEZ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next