§ The result
2 points separate Talkpush and Emmersion.
Talkpush (Screening) edges Emmersion (Assessment) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 44. Emmersion and Talkpush each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split Talkpush holds (headed by Bias Audit Transparency) adds up to more weighted points. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Emmersion 28, Talkpush 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 66% of the weighted advantage Talkpush holds across the 3 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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
Emmersion is filed under Assessment AI, Talkpush under Screening 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 | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | HK |
| Founded | 2015 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emmersion 28 · Talkpush 42
2.5 weighted points to Talkpush
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emmersion 57 · Talkpush 52
1.0 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emmersion 38 · Talkpush 46
1.0 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emmersion 50 · Talkpush 44
0.9 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emmersion 30 · Talkpush 27
0.4 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emmersion 53 · Talkpush 56
0.4 weighted points to Talkpush
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.2 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 -1.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 44 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 56 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 46 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 46 (F) | -2 | -1.5 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources 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 | 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 | 7 | Sources 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emmersion and Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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