§ The result
HiPeople leads Testlify on all 7 criteria.
The Assessment cohort pairing of HiPeople and Testlify comes out 61 (D) to 45 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 16-point lead for HiPeople. Of the 7 criteria Testlify wins none, and the narrowest lead HiPeople holds is on FRIA Support, HiPeople 35 to Testlify 33. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiPeople 84, Testlify 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 61% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
Vendor profile
Testlify
Testlify is a skills-assessment and AI-interviewing platform that ranks candidates on a scored leaderboard from pre-built or AI-generated tests, with an AI résumé screener, AI-scored video, voice and chat interviews, and AI-assisted proctoring.
§ The record
HiPeople and Testlify are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiPeople | Testlify |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · Testlify 30
9.7 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · Testlify 42
2.2 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · Testlify 52
2.0 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · Testlify 55
0.8 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · Testlify 60
0.5 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · Testlify 55
0.4 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiPeople 35 · Testlify 33
0.3 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.9 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 +15.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus Testlify.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | Testlify | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 30 | +54 | +9.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 33 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 45 (F) | +16 | +15.9 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | Testlify | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Testlify has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 36 for Testlify, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Testlify last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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