§ The result
Lever leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Lever (ATS-integrated) opens a 16-point lead on Emi (Screening), 49 to 33. Lever takes all 7 criteria and Emi none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Emi 25 to Lever 32. The advantage Lever holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Emi 28, Lever 52, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 30% of the weighted points Lever gains across the 7 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
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
Emi is filed under Screening AI, Lever under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Emi | Lever |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AR | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emi 28 · Lever 52
4.8 weighted points to Lever
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emi 18 · Lever 42
4.3 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · Lever 58
2.1 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · Lever 60
1.9 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emi 35 · Lever 45
1.2 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emi 25 · Lever 32
1.1 weighted points to Lever
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emi 48 · Lever 58
0.8 weighted points to Lever
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus Lever.
| Category | Weight | Emi | Lever | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 52 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 42 | -24 | -4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 58 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 60 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 49 (F) | -16 | -16.2 |
§ 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 | Lever | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 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 Emi and Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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