§ The result
Emi leads XOR on 4 of the 7 criteria.
Emi holds a 3-point edge over XOR under rubric v1.0, 33 to 30, with both scored in the Screening cohort. Emi leads 4 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 3 are level, so XOR is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 4 Emi leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Emi 44 to XOR 42. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Emi 28, XOR 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 61% of the weighted advantage Emi holds across the 4 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
Emi and XOR are both filed under Screening 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.
| Record | Emi | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AR | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emi 28 · XOR 20
1.6 weighted points to Emi
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · XOR 40
0.5 weighted points to Emi
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · XOR 42
0.3 weighted points to Emi
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emi 35 · XOR 33
0.2 weighted points to Emi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +2.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Emi | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 18 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 42 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 40 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 33 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 48 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 30 (F) | +3 | +2.6 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | 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; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 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 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
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