§ The result
3 points separate HiringBranch and Lever.
HiringBranch (Assessment) edges Lever (ATS-integrated) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 52 to 49. HiringBranch leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Lever leads 3, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiringBranch 60, Lever 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 56% 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
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
§ The record
HiringBranch is filed under Assessment AI, Lever under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only HiringBranch is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiringBranch | Lever |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · Lever 42
3.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · Lever 52
1.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · Lever 60
1.0 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · Lever 45
0.6 weighted points to Lever
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · Lever 58
0.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · Lever 32
0.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · Lever 58
0.4 weighted points to Lever
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.8 — 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 +3 beside that +3.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus Lever.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | Lever | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 32 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 45 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 49 (F) | +3 | +3.8 |
§ 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 | Lever | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 13 | 6 | 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; Lever has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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