§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Lever on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Eightfold AI finishes 15 points clear of Lever under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 49 (F) — across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Eightfold AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Lever is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Eightfold AI leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Eightfold AI 60 to Lever 58. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Eightfold AI 85, Lever 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
Vendor profile
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
§ The record
Eightfold AI is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Lever under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Lever is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Eightfold AI | Lever |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Eightfold AI 85 · Lever 42
7.7 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Eightfold AI 75 · Lever 52
4.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Eightfold AI 45 · Lever 32
1.9 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Eightfold AI 50 · Lever 45
0.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Eightfold AI 60 · Lever 58
0.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Eightfold AI 60 · Lever 58
0.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Eightfold AI minus Lever.
| Category | Weight | Eightfold AI | Lever | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 75 | 52 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 42 | +43 | +7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 32 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 49 (F) | +15 | +15.3 |
§ 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 | Eightfold AI | Lever | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Lever has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Eightfold AI and Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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