§ The result
HiredScore leads Fetcher on 5 of the 7 criteria.
HiredScore finishes 15 points clear of Fetcher inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 52 against 37. HiredScore leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Fetcher is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 HiredScore leads is FRIA Support, Fetcher 25 to HiredScore 30. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fetcher 27, HiredScore 65 — and at a 20% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
§ The record
Fetcher and HiredScore are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Fetcher is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Fetcher | HiredScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fetcher 27 · HiredScore 65
7.6 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fetcher 28 · HiredScore 55
4.9 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fetcher 52 · HiredScore 60
1.0 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fetcher 25 · HiredScore 30
0.8 weighted points to HiredScore
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fetcher 55 · HiredScore 60
0.4 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -14.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fetcher minus HiredScore.
| Category | Weight | Fetcher | HiredScore | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 27 | 65 | -38 | -7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 55 | -27 | -4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 52 (F) | -15 | -14.6 |
§ 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 | Fetcher | HiredScore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
Fetcher has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Fetcher, across 1 distinct source domain, and 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fetcher last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next