§ The result
1 point separates HireQuotient and Emi.
HireQuotient (Sourcing) edges Emi (Screening) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 34 to 33. Emi and HireQuotient each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split HireQuotient holds (headed by Human Oversight Design) adds up to more weighted points. One criterion, Human Oversight Design, is both the widest raw gap (Emi 44, HireQuotient 57) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 50% of the weighted advantage HireQuotient holds across the 3 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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
Emi is filed under Screening AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Emi | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | AR | SG |
| Founded | 2017 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · HireQuotient 57
1.6 weighted points to HireQuotient
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emi 28 · HireQuotient 35
1.4 weighted points to HireQuotient
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · HireQuotient 40
0.6 weighted points to Emi
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emi 35 · HireQuotient 30
0.6 weighted points to Emi
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emi 25 · HireQuotient 22
0.4 weighted points to Emi
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emi 48 · HireQuotient 50
0.2 weighted points to HireQuotient
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Emi | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 18 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 22 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 40 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 57 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 34 (F) | -1 | -1.5 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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