Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
hackajob vs Pillar
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.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
hackajob leads Pillar by 5 points.
hackajob scores 45 and Pillar 40 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. Pillar takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for hackajob, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (hackajob 60, Pillar 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 44% of the weighted advantage hackajob holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- hackajob6
- Pillar1
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation60 vs 42
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
hackajob is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Pillar under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Pillar is in scope of
| Record | hackajob | Pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight32% of the movement so far
hackajob60Pillar423.6 weighted points to hackajob
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight60% of the movement so far
hackajob20Pillar383.2 weighted points to Pillar
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight78% of the movement so far
hackajob58Pillar451.9 weighted points to hackajob
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight85% of the movement so far
hackajob55Pillar480.8 weighted points to hackajob
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight92% of the movement so far
hackajob60Pillar500.8 weighted points to hackajob
- 6
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight97% of the movement so far
hackajob38Pillar330.6 weighted points to hackajob
- 7
FRIA Support
15% weight100% of the movement so far
hackajob32Pillar300.3 weighted points to hackajob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +4.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus Pillar, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | Pillar | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 45F | 40F | +5 | +4.8 |
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 | Pillar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 7 | 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; Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 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 Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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