§ The result
1 point separates Spark Hire and HiredScore.
Spark Hire (Video interview) edges HiredScore (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 53 to 52. Spark Hire leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while HiredScore leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to HiredScore — HiredScore 65, Spark Hire 58, on a 20% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 1 criterion 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
HiredScore is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Spark Hire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiredScore | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Spark Hire 58
1.4 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Spark Hire 62
1.3 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · Spark Hire 60
0.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Spark Hire 38
0.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · Spark Hire 64
0.3 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Spark Hire 62
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 58 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 53 (F) | -1 | -1.5 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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; Spark Hire 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 Spark Hire 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 Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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