§ The result
2 points separate micro1 and HireQuotient.
micro1 holds a 2-point edge over HireQuotient under rubric v1.0, 36 to 34, across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to HireQuotient and micro1, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side micro1 holds, headed by Article 11 Technical Documentation, settle the total. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HireQuotient 35, micro1 50 — and at a 20% weight it carries 73% of the weighted advantage micro1 holds across the 3 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
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
§ The record
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, micro1 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 | micro1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · micro1 50
3.0 weighted points to micro1
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · micro1 48
1.1 weighted points to HireQuotient
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · micro1 45
0.8 weighted points to micro1
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · micro1 25
0.6 weighted points to HireQuotient
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · micro1 45
0.4 weighted points to HireQuotient
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · micro1 20
0.4 weighted points to micro1
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -2.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus micro1.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | micro1 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 20 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 22 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 45 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 48 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 36 (F) | -2 | -2.0 |
§ 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 | micro1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 8 | 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; micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for micro1 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next