§ The result
HiringBranch leads Darwinbox by 6 points.
HiringBranch scores 52 and Darwinbox 46 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Darwinbox takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 4 for HiringBranch, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Darwinbox 28, HiringBranch 60) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 75% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 4 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
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, HiringBranch under Assessment 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. Only HiringBranch is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Darwinbox | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | CA |
| Founded | 2015 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · HiringBranch 60
5.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · HiringBranch 35
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · HiringBranch 40
0.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · HiringBranch 64
0.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · HiringBranch 55
0.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · HiringBranch 52
0.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 60 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 64 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 52 (F) | -6 | -6.9 |
§ 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 | Darwinbox | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next