§ The result
3 points separate Test Partnership and Gloat.
Test Partnership holds a 3-point edge over Gloat under rubric v1.0, 50 to 47, across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to Gloat and Test Partnership, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side Test Partnership holds, headed by Article 11 Technical Documentation, settle the total. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Gloat 38, Test Partnership 48) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Gloat 48, Test Partnership 57), the second being 38% of the weighted advantage Test Partnership holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Gloat
Gloat is an AI-powered internal talent marketplace and "agentic HR" platform that matches an employer's existing employees to internal job openings, gigs, projects, mentorships, and learning based on inferred skills and career goals.
Vendor profile
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
§ The record
Gloat is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Test Partnership 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 | Gloat | Test Partnership |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2015 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Gloat 48 · Test Partnership 57
1.8 weighted points to Test Partnership
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Gloat 38 · Test Partnership 48
1.8 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Gloat 28 · Test Partnership 36
1.2 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Gloat 42 · Test Partnership 33
1.1 weighted points to Gloat
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Gloat 62 · Test Partnership 58
0.5 weighted points to Gloat
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Gloat 58 · Test Partnership 57
0.1 weighted points to Gloat
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Gloat minus Test Partnership.
| Category | Weight | Gloat | Test Partnership | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 57 | -9 | -1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 48 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 36 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 33 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 50 (F) | -3 | -3.1 |
§ 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 | Gloat | Test Partnership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Gloat has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Test Partnership sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for Gloat, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Gloat last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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