§ The result
HiPeople leads Gem on 6 of the 7 criteria.
HiPeople scores 61 (D) and Gem 55 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. HiPeople leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Gem is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 HiPeople leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Gem 57 to HiPeople 58. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Gem 66, HiPeople 84 — and at an 18% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Gem
Gem is an AI-first recruiting platform combining a talent CRM, AI sourcing and outreach automation, candidate engagement, and a newer applicant tracking system with AI-powered application review and ranking.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
§ The record
Gem is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, HiPeople under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only HiPeople is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Gem | HiPeople |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2017 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Gem 66 · HiPeople 84
3.2 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Gem 47 · HiPeople 60
1.6 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Gem 58 · HiPeople 62
0.8 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Gem 62 · HiPeople 66
0.3 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Gem 57 · HiPeople 58
0.1 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Gem 61 · HiPeople 62
0.1 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Gem minus HiPeople.
| Category | Weight | Gem | HiPeople | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 66 | 84 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 62 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 60 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 66 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 61 (D) | -6 | -6.2 |
§ 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 | Gem | HiPeople | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 2 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Gem has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Gem and HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Gem, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Gem last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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