§ The result
HiredScore leads Emi on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, HiredScore (Sourcing) opens a 19-point lead on Emi (Screening), 52 to 33. Emi is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: HiredScore takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Emi 25 to HiredScore 30. The advantage HiredScore holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Emi 28, HiredScore 65, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 38% of the weighted points HiredScore gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
§ The record
Emi is filed under Screening AI, HiredScore under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Emi is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Emi | HiredScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AR | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emi 28 · HiredScore 65
7.4 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emi 18 · HiredScore 55
6.7 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · HiredScore 60
1.9 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · HiredScore 55
1.6 weighted points to HiredScore
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emi 48 · HiredScore 60
1.0 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emi 25 · HiredScore 30
0.8 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -19.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus HiredScore.
| Category | Weight | Emi | HiredScore | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 65 | -37 | -7.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 55 | -37 | -6.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 55 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 60 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 52 (F) | -19 | -19.3 |
§ 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 | Emi | HiredScore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emi and HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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