§ The result
hireEZ leads Fetcher on 6 of the 7 criteria.
hireEZ scores 42 and Fetcher 37 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the Sourcing cohort. hireEZ leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Fetcher is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 hireEZ leads is Bias Audit Transparency, Fetcher 28 to hireEZ 30. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fetcher 27, hireEZ 38 — and at a 20% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage hireEZ holds across the 6 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
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
§ The record
Fetcher and hireEZ are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Fetcher | hireEZ |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fetcher 27 · hireEZ 38
2.2 weighted points to hireEZ
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fetcher 55 · hireEZ 60
0.8 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fetcher 52 · hireEZ 58
0.7 weighted points to hireEZ
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fetcher 28 · hireEZ 30
0.4 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fetcher 35 · hireEZ 38
0.4 weighted points to hireEZ
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fetcher 55 · hireEZ 58
0.2 weighted points to hireEZ
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.6 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 -4.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fetcher minus hireEZ.
| Category | Weight | Fetcher | hireEZ | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 27 | 38 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 42 (F) | -5 | -4.6 |
§ 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 | hireEZ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Fetcher has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Fetcher, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fetcher last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next