§ The result
3 points separate Gloat and Emmersion.
Gloat holds a 3-point edge over Emmersion under rubric v1.0, 47 to 44, across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. Gloat leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Emmersion leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Emmersion takes Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20%, Emmersion 57 to Gloat 48, 86% of the weighted advantage Emmersion holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Bias Audit Transparency, Emmersion 28 to Gloat 38.
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
Gloat
Gloat is an AI-powered internal talent marketplace and "agentic HR" platform that matches an employer's existing employees to internal job openings, gigs, projects, mentorships, and learning based on inferred skills and career goals.
§ The record
Emmersion is filed under Assessment AI, Gloat under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Emmersion | Gloat |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emmersion 57 · Gloat 48
1.8 weighted points to Emmersion
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emmersion 28 · Gloat 38
1.8 weighted points to Gloat
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emmersion 50 · Gloat 58
1.2 weighted points to Gloat
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emmersion 53 · Gloat 62
1.1 weighted points to Gloat
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emmersion 38 · Gloat 42
0.5 weighted points to Gloat
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emmersion 30 · Gloat 28
0.3 weighted points to Emmersion
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emmersion 60 · Gloat 62
0.2 weighted points to Gloat
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.8 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 Emmersion minus Gloat.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | Gloat | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 48 | +9 | +1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 62 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 47 (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 | Emmersion | Gloat | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 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 | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 21 | 8 | 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; Gloat has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 8 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 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 29 for Gloat, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Gloat last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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