§ The result
HireVue leads impress.ai by 20 points.
HireVue finishes 20 points clear of impress.ai under rubric v1.0 — 58 against 38 — across the Video interview and Screening cohorts. HireVue leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while impress.ai leads 1, including Customer Documentation, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HireVue 80, impress.ai 22 — and at an 18% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage HireVue holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HireVue
Asynchronous video interviewing platform with optional AI-driven assessment scoring of candidate responses.
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
HireVue is filed under Video interview AI, impress.ai under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Assessment.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | HireVue | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2004 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireVue 80 · impress.ai 22
10.4 weighted points to HireVue
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireVue 65 · impress.ai 35
6.0 weighted points to HireVue
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireVue 45 · impress.ai 32
1.6 weighted points to HireVue
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireVue 35 · impress.ai 25
1.5 weighted points to HireVue
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireVue 60 · impress.ai 52
1.0 weighted points to HireVue
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireVue 55 · impress.ai 58
0.2 weighted points to impress.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +20.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +20.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireVue minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | HireVue | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 35 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 22 | +58 | +10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 32 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 38 (F) | +20 | +20.2 |
§ 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 | HireVue | impress.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 18 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HireVue has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HireVue sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for HireVue, across 4 distinct source domains, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireVue last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next