§ The result
HiringBranch leads impress.ai on 5 of the 7 criteria.
HiringBranch sits 14 points above impress.ai under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 38 — with HiringBranch filed under Assessment and impress.ai under Screening. HiringBranch leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so impress.ai is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 HiringBranch leads is Customer Documentation, HiringBranch 64 to impress.ai 58. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiringBranch 60, impress.ai 22 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 5 criteria 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
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
HiringBranch is filed under Assessment AI, impress.ai under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiringBranch | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | CA | SG |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · impress.ai 22
6.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · impress.ai 35
5.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · impress.ai 25
1.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · impress.ai 32
1.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · impress.ai 58
0.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +14.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 22 | +38 | +6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 32 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 38 (F) | +14 | +14.8 |
§ 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 | impress.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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