§ The result
4 points separate impress.ai and HireQuotient.
impress.ai (Screening) edges HireQuotient (Sourcing) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 38 to 34. impress.ai leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while HireQuotient leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. One criterion, Data Governance Disclosure, is both the widest raw gap (HireQuotient 40, impress.ai 55) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 15% weight it makes up 52% of the weighted advantage impress.ai holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
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
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, impress.ai under Screening AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Assessment and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | SG | SG |
| Founded | 2021 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · impress.ai 55
2.3 weighted points to impress.ai
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · impress.ai 22
0.7 weighted points to impress.ai
8% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · impress.ai 58
0.6 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · impress.ai 52
0.6 weighted points to HireQuotient
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · impress.ai 25
0.4 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · impress.ai 32
0.2 weighted points to impress.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.7 — 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 -4 beside that -3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 22 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 25 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 52 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 38 (F) | -4 | -3.7 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 6 | 0 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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