§ The result
Hireology leads Emmersion by 13 points.
Hireology sits 13 points above Emmersion under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 44 — with Hireology filed under ATS-integrated and Emmersion under Assessment. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Hireology: Hireology is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Emmersion on Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Emmersion 28, Hireology 83) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 71% of the weighted advantage Hireology holds across the 5 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
Hireology
Hireology is an applicant tracking and hiring platform for multi-location auto dealers, healthcare providers and hospitality operators. Its AI features score applicants against employer-defined criteria (AI Match) and run rubric-scored, voice-based first-round screening interviews (AI Interview).
§ The record
Emmersion is filed under Assessment AI, Hireology 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 | Hireology |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emmersion 28 · Hireology 83
9.9 weighted points to Hireology
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emmersion 38 · Hireology 59
2.5 weighted points to Hireology
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emmersion 57 · Hireology 50
1.4 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emmersion 30 · Hireology 35
0.8 weighted points to Hireology
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emmersion 53 · Hireology 57
0.5 weighted points to Hireology
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emmersion 50 · Hireology 52
0.3 weighted points to Hireology
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emmersion 60 · Hireology 58
0.2 weighted points to Emmersion
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus Hireology.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | Hireology | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 83 | -55 | -9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 57 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 59 | -21 | -2.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 57 (F) | -13 | -12.4 |
§ 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 | Hireology | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Hireology has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emmersion and Hireology 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 Hireology, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Hireology last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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