§ The result
Fuel50 leads Spark Hire by 5 points.
Fuel50 scores 58 and Spark Hire 53 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Sourcing and Video interview cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Fuel50: Fuel50 is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Spark Hire on Customer Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Fuel50 70, Spark Hire 58) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 52% of the weighted advantage Fuel50 holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Fuel50
Fuel50 is an AI internal talent marketplace and workforce-transformation platform that matches employees to internal roles, gigs, mentors, learning and career paths, and fit-scores and ranks internal candidates for open roles and succession pipelines, using a skills ontology curated by in-house I/O psychologists.
Vendor profile
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Fuel50 is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Fuel50 | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fuel50 70 · Spark Hire 58
2.4 weighted points to Fuel50
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fuel50 68 · Spark Hire 62
1.1 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fuel50 64 · Spark Hire 60
0.6 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fuel50 32 · Spark Hire 30
0.3 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fuel50 40 · Spark Hire 38
0.2 weighted points to Fuel50
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fuel50 62 · Spark Hire 64
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fuel50 61 · Spark Hire 62
0.1 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.9 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 +4.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fuel50 minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Fuel50 | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 58 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 60 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 62 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 53 (F) | +5 | +4.3 |
§ 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 | Fuel50 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Fuel50 has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Fuel50 and Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Fuel50, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fuel50 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next