§ The result
4 points separate iMocha and HiringBranch.
Within the Assessment cohort, iMocha edges HiringBranch by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 56 to 52. iMocha leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while HiringBranch leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to HiringBranch — HiringBranch 60, iMocha 44, on an 18% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 1 criterion on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
Vendor profile
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
§ The record
HiringBranch and iMocha are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiringBranch | iMocha |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | IN |
| Founded | 2014 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · iMocha 44
2.9 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · iMocha 66
1.6 weighted points to iMocha
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · iMocha 68
1.6 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · iMocha 64
1.4 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · iMocha 48
1.0 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · iMocha 38
0.4 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · iMocha 66
0.2 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -3.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.1 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 -3.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus iMocha.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | iMocha | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 68 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 44 | +16 | +2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 66 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 64 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 48 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 66 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 56 (F) | -4 | -3.4 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | iMocha | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 21 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for iMocha sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next