§ The result
HiringBranch leads hackajob by 7 points.
Under rubric v1.0, HiringBranch, filed under Assessment, finishes on 52 and hackajob, filed under Sourcing, on 45, 7 points apart. HiringBranch leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while hackajob leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — hackajob 20, HiringBranch 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 88% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
hackajob
Archer, hackajob's AI sourcing agent, is calibrated by a recruiter on a hiring brief, then finds, engages and qualifies passive candidates from a 1.5m-member pool and 800m+ indexed profiles and invites those who meet the bar to apply through the employer's existing ATS.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
hackajob is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, HiringBranch under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only HiringBranch is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | hackajob | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hackajob 20 · HiringBranch 60
7.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hackajob 32 · HiringBranch 35
0.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hackajob 58 · HiringBranch 55
0.4 weighted points to hackajob
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hackajob 55 · HiringBranch 52
0.4 weighted points to hackajob
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hackajob 60 · HiringBranch 64
0.3 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
hackajob 38 · HiringBranch 40
0.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -7.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -7.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 60 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 52 (F) | -7 | -7.4 |
§ 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 | hackajob | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next