§ The result
HiredScore leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
HiredScore finishes 18 points clear of Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 34 — across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. HiredScore leads every one of the 7 criteria, Zappyhire none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, HiredScore 30 to Zappyhire 25. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HiredScore 65, Zappyhire 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 7 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
HiredScore is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Zappyhire under Screening 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 Zappyhire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiredScore | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2012 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Zappyhire 30
7.0 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Zappyhire 28
4.9 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · Zappyhire 42
1.9 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Zappyhire 50
1.2 weighted points to HiredScore
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · Zappyhire 45
1.2 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Zappyhire 28
0.8 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · Zappyhire 25
0.8 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +17.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 30 | +35 | +7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 28 | +27 | +4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 34 (F) | +18 | +17.8 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 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 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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