§ The result
HiringBranch leads Knockri by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, HiringBranch, filed under Assessment, finishes on 52 and Knockri, filed under Video interview, on 47, 5 points apart. HiringBranch leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Knockri leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 2 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiringBranch 60, Knockri 35 — and at an 18% weight it carries 66% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 4 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
Knockri
Knockri runs asynchronous structured behavioural interviews that candidates answer by audio, video or text; it transcribes the answers, uses NLP models to score the work-related behaviours they describe against a skills framework, and produces per-skill scores and ranked shortlists.
§ The record
HiringBranch is filed under Assessment AI, Knockri under Video interview 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 | Knockri |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · Knockri 35
4.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · Knockri 55
1.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · Knockri 60
1.0 weighted points to Knockri
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · Knockri 55
0.7 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · Knockri 35
0.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +5.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus Knockri.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | Knockri | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 47 (F) | +5 | +5.9 |
§ 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 | Knockri | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 36 | 5 | Sources 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; Knockri has 41 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Knockri sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 41 for Knockri, across 7 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Knockri last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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