Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
hackajob vs Zappyhire
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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
hackajob leads Zappyhire by 11 points.
hackajob sits 11 points above Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 34 — with hackajob filed under Sourcing and Zappyhire under Screening. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of hackajob: hackajob is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Zappyhire on Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (hackajob 60, Zappyhire 30) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage hackajob holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- hackajob6
- Zappyhire1
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation60 vs 30
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
hackajob is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Zappyhire is in scope of
| Record | hackajob | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight43% of the movement so far
hackajob60Zappyhire306.0 weighted points to hackajob
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight60% of the movement so far
hackajob58Zappyhire422.4 weighted points to hackajob
- 3
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight71% of the movement so far
hackajob20Zappyhire281.4 weighted points to Zappyhire
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight79% of the movement so far
hackajob38Zappyhire281.2 weighted points to hackajob
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight88% of the movement so far
hackajob60Zappyhire451.2 weighted points to hackajob
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight96% of the movement so far
hackajob32Zappyhire251.1 weighted points to hackajob
- 7
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
hackajob55Zappyhire500.6 weighted points to hackajob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +11.0.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus Zappyhire, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 30 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 28 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45F | 34F | +11 | +11.0 |
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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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