§ The result
Gem leads Pin on all 7 criteria.
The Sourcing cohort pairing of Gem and Pin comes out 55 to 40 under rubric v1.0, a 15-point lead for Gem. Gem leads every one of the 7 criteria, Pin none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Gem 47 to Pin 45. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Gem 66, Pin 35) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Gem 58, Pin 30), the second being 37% 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
Pin
Pin is an AI recruiting agent that searches a database of 850M+ candidate profiles, scores and ranks candidates for fit, can automatically screen out non-matches (each with a one-line reason), and runs outreach and interview scheduling.
§ The record
Gem and Pin are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Gem | Pin |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Gem 58 · Pin 30
5.6 weighted points to Gem
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Gem 66 · Pin 35
5.6 weighted points to Gem
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Gem 61 · Pin 50
1.3 weighted points to Gem
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Gem 57 · Pin 50
1.1 weighted points to Gem
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Gem 35 · Pin 30
0.8 weighted points to Gem
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Gem 62 · Pin 55
0.6 weighted points to Gem
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Gem 47 · Pin 45
0.2 weighted points to Gem
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Gem minus Pin.
| Category | Weight | Gem | Pin | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 30 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 66 | 35 | +31 | +5.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 50 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 45 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 40 (F) | +15 | +15.1 |
§ 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 | Pin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 32 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Gem has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Pin has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 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 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Gem, across 2 distinct source domains, and 37 for Pin, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Gem last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pin last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
Scored against