§ The result
HiBob leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
HiBob finishes 16 points clear of XOR under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 30 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Of the 7 criteria XOR wins none, and the narrowest lead HiBob holds is on Bias Audit Transparency, HiBob 20 to XOR 18. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (HiBob 55, XOR 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 42% of the weighted advantage HiBob holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
Vendor profile
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
HiBob is filed under ATS-integrated AI, XOR under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | HiBob | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiBob 55 · XOR 20
7.0 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiBob 63 · XOR 40
2.8 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiBob 57 · XOR 42
2.3 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiBob 47 · XOR 33
1.7 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiBob 35 · XOR 25
1.5 weighted points to HiBob
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiBob 61 · XOR 48
1.0 weighted points to HiBob
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiBob 20 · XOR 18
0.4 weighted points to HiBob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +16.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiBob minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | HiBob | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 20 | +35 | +7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 18 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 42 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 40 | +23 | +2.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 33 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 61 | 48 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 30 (F) | +16 | +16.6 |
§ 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 | HiBob | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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