§ The result
HiredScore and HiringBranch tie at 52.
HiredScore (Sourcing) and HiringBranch (Assessment) tie at 52 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. HiredScore leads 2 of the 7 criteria and HiringBranch 4, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. HiredScore takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (HiredScore 65, HiringBranch 60), which is 51% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Human Oversight Design, HiredScore 60 to HiringBranch 52.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
HiredScore is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, HiringBranch under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only HiringBranch is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiredScore | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2012 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · HiringBranch 60
1.0 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · HiringBranch 52
1.0 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · HiringBranch 60
0.9 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · HiringBranch 35
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · HiringBranch 40
0.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · HiringBranch 64
0.3 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 60 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 52 (F) | - | -0.6 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 28 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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