§ The result
Gem leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
Gem finishes 21 points clear of HireQuotient inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 55 against 34. Gem takes all 7 criteria and HireQuotient none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Gem 61 to HireQuotient 57. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Gem 66, HireQuotient 18 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Gem holds across the 7 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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
Gem and HireQuotient are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 3 secondary categories: ATS-integrated, Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Gem | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2017 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Gem 66 · HireQuotient 18
8.6 weighted points to Gem
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Gem 58 · HireQuotient 35
4.6 weighted points to Gem
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Gem 57 · HireQuotient 40
2.5 weighted points to Gem
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Gem 47 · HireQuotient 30
2.0 weighted points to Gem
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Gem 35 · HireQuotient 22
1.9 weighted points to Gem
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Gem 62 · HireQuotient 50
1.0 weighted points to Gem
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Gem 61 · HireQuotient 57
0.5 weighted points to Gem
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +21.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Gem minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | Gem | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 66 | 18 | +48 | +8.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 22 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 57 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 30 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 34 (F) | +21 | +21.2 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Gem has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Gem sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Gem, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Gem last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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