§ The result
Spark Hire leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Spark Hire (Video interview) opens a 20-point lead on Emi (Screening), 53 to 33. Of the 7 criteria Emi wins none, and the narrowest lead Spark Hire holds is on Post-Market Monitoring, Emi 35 to Spark Hire 38. The advantage Spark Hire holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Emi 18, Spark Hire 62, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 38% of the weighted points Spark Hire 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Emi is filed under Screening AI, Spark Hire under Video interview 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 Spark Hire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Emi | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AR | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emi 18 · Spark Hire 62
7.9 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emi 28 · Spark Hire 58
6.0 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · Spark Hire 60
2.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · Spark Hire 62
2.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emi 48 · Spark Hire 64
1.3 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emi 25 · Spark Hire 30
0.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emi 35 · Spark Hire 38
0.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -20 beside that -20.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Emi | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 58 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 62 | -44 | -7.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 60 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 62 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 64 | -16 | -1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 53 (F) | -20 | -20.9 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources 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; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emi and Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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