§ The result
Lever leads Fetcher on all 7 criteria.
Lever sits 12 points above Fetcher under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 37 — with Lever filed under ATS-integrated and Fetcher under Sourcing. Lever leads every one of the 7 criteria, Fetcher none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Fetcher 55 to Lever 58. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fetcher 27, Lever 52 — and at a 20% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage Lever holds across the 7 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
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
§ The record
Fetcher is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Lever under ATS-integrated 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 | Lever |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fetcher 27 · Lever 52
5.0 weighted points to Lever
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fetcher 28 · Lever 42
2.5 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fetcher 35 · Lever 45
1.2 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fetcher 25 · Lever 32
1.1 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fetcher 52 · Lever 60
1.0 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fetcher 55 · Lever 58
0.4 weighted points to Lever
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fetcher 55 · Lever 58
0.2 weighted points to Lever
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fetcher minus Lever.
| Category | Weight | Fetcher | Lever | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 27 | 52 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 42 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 49 (F) | -12 | -11.4 |
§ 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 | Fetcher | Lever | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Fetcher has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Lever has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Fetcher, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fetcher last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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