§ The result
HirePro and impress.ai tie at 38.
HirePro and impress.ai tie at 38 under rubric v1.0 inside the Screening cohort, arriving there from different criteria. HirePro leads 3 of the 7 criteria and impress.ai 3, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HirePro 33, impress.ai 22) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 73% of the weighted advantage HirePro holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HirePro
HirePro's AI Recruiter matches resumes to a job, shortlists candidates and runs AI-led interviews that score each answer with written reasoning and a fraud and identity check, alongside proctored assessments, video interviews and campus-hiring workflows.
Vendor profile
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment automation platform that uses conversational AI assistants, resume parsing and scoring, and structured competency-based screening to filter, rank and shortlist job candidates, integrating with enterprise ATS systems.
§ The record
HirePro and impress.ai are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Assessment and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HirePro | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | IN | SG |
| Founded | 2004 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HirePro 33 · impress.ai 22
2.0 weighted points to HirePro
20% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HirePro 30 · impress.ai 35
1.0 weighted points to impress.ai
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HirePro 50 · impress.ai 55
0.8 weighted points to impress.ai
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HirePro 52 · impress.ai 58
0.5 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HirePro 55 · impress.ai 52
0.4 weighted points to HirePro
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HirePro 35 · impress.ai 32
0.4 weighted points to HirePro
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.9 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 +0.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HirePro minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | HirePro | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 22 | +11 | +2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 32 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 38 (F) | - | +0.5 |
§ 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 | HirePro | impress.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HirePro has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for HirePro, across 1 distinct source domain, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HirePro last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next