§ The result
2 points separate Factorial and Emmersion.
Factorial holds a 2-point edge over Emmersion under rubric v1.0, 46 to 44, across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Emmersion takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 4 for Factorial, whose share includes Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. The advantage Factorial holds is spread out: Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Emmersion 38, Factorial 48, 12% weight), yet it supplies only 33% of the weighted points Factorial gains across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
Vendor profile
Factorial
Factorial is a Barcelona-based all-in-one HR, finance and IT platform for small and mid-sized businesses. Its applicant tracking system has optional AI matching, which shows a percentage fit for applicants it recommends interviewing, plus CV summaries, AI-written job posts and AI Calls, where a voice agent phone-screens candidates and gives each a match label that can move them to the next stage automatically.
§ The record
Emmersion is filed under Assessment AI, Factorial under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Emmersion is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Emmersion | Factorial |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | ES |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emmersion 38 · Factorial 48
1.2 weighted points to Factorial
15% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emmersion 50 · Factorial 57
1.1 weighted points to Factorial
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emmersion 57 · Factorial 52
1.0 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emmersion 30 · Factorial 35
0.8 weighted points to Factorial
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emmersion 53 · Factorial 58
0.6 weighted points to Factorial
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emmersion 28 · Factorial 25
0.5 weighted points to Emmersion
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -2.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus Factorial.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | Factorial | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 57 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 58 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 48 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 46 (F) | -2 | -2.1 |
§ 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 | Emmersion | Factorial | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Factorial has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emmersion sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 74 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 34 for Factorial, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Factorial last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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