§ The result
iMocha leads impress.ai on all 7 criteria.
iMocha finishes 18 points clear of impress.ai under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 38 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. iMocha leads every one of the 7 criteria, impress.ai none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, iMocha 66 to impress.ai 58. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (iMocha 68, impress.ai 35, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage iMocha holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
Vendor profile
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment automation platform that uses conversational AI assistants, resume parsing and scoring, and structured competency-based screening to filter, rank and shortlist job candidates, integrating with enterprise ATS systems.
§ The record
iMocha is filed under Assessment AI, impress.ai under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | iMocha | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | IN | SG |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
iMocha 68 · impress.ai 35
6.6 weighted points to iMocha
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · impress.ai 22
4.0 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · impress.ai 25
1.9 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iMocha 48 · impress.ai 32
1.9 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · impress.ai 55
1.6 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · impress.ai 52
1.4 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · impress.ai 58
0.6 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.2 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 +18.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 35 | +33 | +6.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 22 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 52 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 32 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 38 (F) | +18 | +18.2 |
§ 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 | iMocha | impress.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 21 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 18 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for iMocha sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next