§ The result
impress.ai leads Entelo by 5 points.
impress.ai scores 38 and Entelo 33 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. impress.ai leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while Entelo leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Entelo 40, impress.ai 58) and Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (Entelo 45, impress.ai 55), the second being 27% of the weighted advantage impress.ai holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Entelo
Entelo is an AI-powered talent sourcing and diversity-recruiting platform that aggregates hundreds of millions of public candidate profiles and applies predictive machine-learning models to score, rank, and surface (including underrepresented) candidates for recruiters.
Vendor profile
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment automation platform that uses conversational AI assistants, resume parsing and scoring, and structured competency-based screening to filter, rank and shortlist job candidates, integrating with enterprise ATS systems.
§ The record
Entelo is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, impress.ai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only impress.ai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Entelo | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2011 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Entelo 45 · impress.ai 55
1.5 weighted points to impress.ai
8% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Entelo 40 · impress.ai 58
1.4 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Entelo 42 · impress.ai 52
1.2 weighted points to impress.ai
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Entelo 30 · impress.ai 35
1.0 weighted points to impress.ai
18% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Entelo 20 · impress.ai 22
0.4 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Entelo 35 · impress.ai 32
0.4 weighted points to Entelo
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Entelo minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | Entelo | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 22 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 32 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 38 (F) | -5 | -5.1 |
§ 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 | Entelo | impress.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Entelo has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Entelo, across 3 distinct source domains, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Entelo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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