§ The result
Fuel50 leads Thomas International by 10 points.
Fuel50, filed under Sourcing, comes out 10 points above Thomas International, filed under Assessment: 58 against 48 under rubric v1.0. Thomas International takes 1 of the 7 criteria, FRIA Support among them, against 5 for Fuel50, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fuel50 68, Thomas International 43 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Fuel50 holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Thomas International
Thomas International provides psychometric and aptitude assessments (behaviour/DISC, cognitive ability, personality and emotional intelligence) with an AI coaching layer, used for hiring, candidate selection and employee development.
§ The record
Fuel50 is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Thomas International under Assessment 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 | Thomas International |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2011 | 1981 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fuel50 68 · Thomas International 43
4.5 weighted points to Fuel50
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fuel50 70 · Thomas International 54
3.2 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fuel50 61 · Thomas International 51
1.2 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fuel50 64 · Thomas International 57
1.1 weighted points to Fuel50
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fuel50 62 · Thomas International 60
0.2 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fuel50 32 · Thomas International 33
0.1 weighted points to Thomas International
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +10.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fuel50 minus Thomas International.
| Category | Weight | Fuel50 | Thomas International | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 54 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 43 | +25 | +4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 33 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 57 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 51 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 48 (F) | +10 | +10.0 |
§ 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 | Thomas International | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Fuel50 has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Thomas International has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Fuel50 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Fuel50, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Thomas International, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fuel50 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Thomas International last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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