§ The result
Fetcher leads XOR on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Fetcher scores 37 and XOR 30 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. Fetcher leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so XOR is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Fetcher leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Fetcher 35 to XOR 33. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Fetcher 55, XOR 42, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 26% of the weighted advantage Fetcher 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
Fetcher is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, XOR 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.
| Record | Fetcher | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fetcher 55 · XOR 42
1.9 weighted points to Fetcher
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fetcher 28 · XOR 18
1.8 weighted points to Fetcher
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fetcher 52 · XOR 40
1.4 weighted points to Fetcher
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fetcher 27 · XOR 20
1.4 weighted points to Fetcher
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fetcher 55 · XOR 48
0.6 weighted points to Fetcher
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fetcher 35 · XOR 33
0.2 weighted points to Fetcher
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +7.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fetcher minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Fetcher | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 27 | 20 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 18 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 33 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 30 (F) | +7 | +7.4 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | 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; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Fetcher, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fetcher last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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