§ The result
HiringBranch leads Pillar on all 7 criteria.
HiringBranch sits 12 points above Pillar under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 40 — with HiringBranch filed under Assessment and Pillar under Screening. HiringBranch leads every one of the 7 criteria, Pillar none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, HiringBranch 52 to Pillar 48. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HiringBranch 60, Pillar 38, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 7 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
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
§ The record
HiringBranch is filed under Assessment AI, Pillar 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 | Pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
§ 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 · Pillar 38
4.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · Pillar 42
3.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · Pillar 45
1.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · Pillar 50
1.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · Pillar 33
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · Pillar 30
0.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · Pillar 48
0.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.3 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 +12.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus Pillar.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | Pillar | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 38 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 40 (F) | +12 | +12.3 |
§ 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 | Pillar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
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 Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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