§ The result
Darwinbox leads impress.ai by 8 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Darwinbox, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 46 and impress.ai, filed under Screening, on 38, 8 points apart. Darwinbox leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while impress.ai leads 1, including Customer Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Darwinbox 60, impress.ai 35 — and at a 20% weight it carries 63% 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
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment automation platform that uses conversational AI assistants, resume parsing and scoring, and structured competency-based screening to filter, rank and shortlist job candidates, integrating with enterprise ATS systems.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, impress.ai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only impress.ai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Darwinbox | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | IN | SG |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · impress.ai 35
5.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · impress.ai 22
1.1 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · impress.ai 25
0.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · impress.ai 55
0.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · impress.ai 52
0.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · impress.ai 32
0.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · impress.ai 58
0.1 weighted points to impress.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 22 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +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 | 32 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 38 (F) | +8 | +7.9 |
§ 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 | impress.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 7 | 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; impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next