§ The result
HiringBranch leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
HiringBranch finishes 18 points clear of Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 34 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. HiringBranch leads every one of the 7 criteria, Zappyhire none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, HiringBranch 52 to Zappyhire 50. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (HiringBranch 60, Zappyhire 28) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (HiringBranch 60, Zappyhire 30), the second being 33% 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
HiringBranch is filed under Assessment AI, Zappyhire 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 | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | IN |
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · Zappyhire 30
6.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · Zappyhire 28
5.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · Zappyhire 42
1.9 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · Zappyhire 45
1.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · Zappyhire 25
1.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · Zappyhire 28
1.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · Zappyhire 50
0.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 30 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 28 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 45 | +19 | +1.5 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 34 (F) | +18 | +18.4 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next