§ The result
4 points separate HireQuotient and XOR.
HireQuotient holds a 4-point edge over XOR under rubric v1.0, 34 to 30, across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to HireQuotient and XOR, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side HireQuotient holds, headed by Article 11 Technical Documentation, settle the total. HireQuotient takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (HireQuotient 35, XOR 20), which is 58% of the weighted advantage HireQuotient holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Human Oversight Design, HireQuotient 57 to XOR 40.
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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
HireQuotient is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, XOR under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
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 | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2016 |
§ 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 · XOR 20
3.0 weighted points to HireQuotient
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · XOR 40
2.0 weighted points to HireQuotient
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · XOR 25
0.4 weighted points to XOR
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · XOR 33
0.4 weighted points to XOR
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · XOR 42
0.3 weighted points to XOR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · XOR 48
0.2 weighted points to HireQuotient
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.3 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 +4.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 18 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 25 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 30 (F) | +4 | +4.1 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 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; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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