Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
hackajob vs TalentLens
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
TalentLens
TalentLens, Pearson's workplace psychometrics brand, publishes the Watson-Glaser critical-thinking test, Raven's Adaptive, BMCT-II and DAT Next Generation, which candidates take online and which are scored automatically against norm groups to produce percentile-based reports for hiring and development.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
TalentLens takes the total, hackajob takes more of the criteria.
TalentLens (Assessment) edges hackajob (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 46 to 45. hackajob leads more of the criteria than TalentLens — 5 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which TalentLens leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to TalentLens. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (hackajob 20, TalentLens 45) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 95% of the weighted advantage TalentLens holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- hackajob5
- TalentLens2
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency20 vs 45
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
hackajob is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, TalentLens under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
Only TalentLens is in scope of
| Record | hackajob | TalentLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | Not recorded |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight52% of the movement so far
hackajob20TalentLens454.5 weighted points to TalentLens
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight70% of the movement so far
hackajob60TalentLens521.6 weighted points to hackajob
- 3
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight84% of the movement so far
hackajob58TalentLens501.2 weighted points to hackajob
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight92% of the movement so far
hackajob38TalentLens320.7 weighted points to hackajob
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight95% of the movement so far
hackajob32TalentLens300.3 weighted points to hackajob
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight98% of the movement so far
hackajob55TalentLens570.2 weighted points to TalentLens
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
hackajob60TalentLens580.2 weighted points to hackajob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus TalentLens, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | TalentLens | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 45 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 57 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 32 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45F | 46F | -1 | -0.8 |
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 | TalentLens | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; TalentLens has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for TalentLens sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for TalentLens, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TalentLens last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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