§ The result
PageUp leads HiringBranch by 12 points.
PageUp sits 12 points above HiringBranch under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 52 (F) — with PageUp filed under ATS-integrated and HiringBranch under Assessment. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of PageUp: PageUp is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and HiringBranch on Customer Documentation. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HiringBranch 60, PageUp 80, 18% weight), is only 31% of the weighted advantage PageUp builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
§ The record
HiringBranch is filed under Assessment AI, PageUp 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 | PageUp |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | CA | AU |
| Founded | 2014 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · PageUp 80
3.6 weighted points to PageUp
20% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · PageUp 74
2.8 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · PageUp 55
1.8 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · PageUp 64
1.4 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · PageUp 63
1.2 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · PageUp 40
0.8 weighted points to PageUp
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · PageUp 63
0.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus PageUp.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | PageUp | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 74 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 80 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 64 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 63 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 64 (D) | -12 | -11.5 |
§ 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 | PageUp | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 24 | 4 | 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; PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for PageUp sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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