§ The result
4 points separate Sapia.ai and HiredScore.
Sapia.ai (Assessment) edges HiredScore (Sourcing) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 56 to 52. Sapia.ai leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while HiredScore leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HiredScore 35, Sapia.ai 50, 12% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage Sapia.ai holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
Vendor profile
Sapia.ai
Structured, text-based chat interview that scores candidates on personality (HEXACO) and competency traits - with no video, audio, or demographic data used.
§ The record
HiredScore is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Sapia.ai 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 Sapia.ai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiredScore | Sapia.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2012 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Sapia.ai 50
1.8 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · Sapia.ai 62
1.1 weighted points to Sapia.ai
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Sapia.ai 70
1.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · Sapia.ai 35
0.8 weighted points to Sapia.ai
18% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Sapia.ai 52
0.5 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Sapia.ai 62
0.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · Sapia.ai 62
0.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Sapia.ai.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Sapia.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 70 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 56 (F) | -4 | -4.5 |
§ 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 | Sapia.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 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 domainSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Sapia.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore and Sapia.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 29 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Sapia.ai, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sapia.ai last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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