§ The result
Darwinbox and Talkpush tie at 46.
Darwinbox, filed under ATS-integrated, and Talkpush, filed under Screening, tie at 46 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Darwinbox leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Talkpush 4, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Darwinbox 28, Talkpush 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 60% of the weighted advantage Talkpush holds across the 4 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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Talkpush 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 Talkpush is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Darwinbox | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | HK |
| Founded | 2015 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · Talkpush 42
2.5 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · Talkpush 44
2.1 weighted points to Darwinbox
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · Talkpush 52
1.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · Talkpush 46
1.3 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · Talkpush 27
0.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · Talkpush 60
0.2 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · Talkpush 56
0.1 weighted points to Talkpush
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to 0.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that 0.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 44 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 46 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 46 (F) | - | 0.0 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 21 | 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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