§ The result
Emmersion leads Fetcher by 7 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Emmersion, filed under Assessment, finishes on 44 and Fetcher, filed under Sourcing, on 37, 7 points apart. Emmersion leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Fetcher leads 1, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Emmersion 57, Fetcher 27 — and at a 20% weight it carries 79% of the weighted advantage Emmersion holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Fetcher
AI-powered candidate sourcing and outbound recruiting platform that automates passive and active talent sourcing, personalized email outreach, and inbound applicant screening for corporate recruiting teams.
§ The record
Emmersion is filed under Assessment AI, Fetcher under Candidate sourcing 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 | Fetcher |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emmersion 57 · Fetcher 27
6.0 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emmersion 30 · Fetcher 25
0.8 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emmersion 50 · Fetcher 55
0.8 weighted points to Fetcher
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emmersion 60 · Fetcher 55
0.4 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emmersion 38 · Fetcher 35
0.4 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emmersion 53 · Fetcher 52
0.1 weighted points to Emmersion
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus Fetcher.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | Fetcher | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 27 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 52 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 37 (F) | +7 | +6.9 |
§ 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 | Emmersion | Fetcher | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Fetcher has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 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 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 19 for Fetcher, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Fetcher last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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