§ The result
Spark Hire leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
Spark Hire finishes 19 points clear of HireQuotient under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 34 — across the Video interview and Sourcing cohorts. Spark Hire leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; HireQuotient leads none. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HireQuotient 18, Spark Hire 62) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 7 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · Spark Hire 62
7.9 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · Spark Hire 58
4.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · Spark Hire 60
3.0 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · Spark Hire 30
1.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · Spark Hire 64
1.1 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · Spark Hire 38
1.0 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · Spark Hire 62
0.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 58 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 62 | -44 | -7.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 30 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 60 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 64 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 53 (F) | -19 | -19.4 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources 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; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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