§ The result
Lever leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
Lever finishes 15 points clear of HireQuotient under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 34 — across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. Lever leads every one of the 7 criteria, HireQuotient none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, HireQuotient 57 to Lever 60. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HireQuotient 18, Lever 42, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 29% of the weighted advantage Lever holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
§ The record
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Lever under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | Lever |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · Lever 42
4.3 weighted points to Lever
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · Lever 52
3.4 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · Lever 58
2.7 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · Lever 45
1.8 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · Lever 32
1.5 weighted points to Lever
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · Lever 58
0.6 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · Lever 60
0.4 weighted points to Lever
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus Lever.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | Lever | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 52 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 42 | -24 | -4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 32 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 49 (F) | -15 | -14.7 |
§ 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 | Lever | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Lever has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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