§ The result
iMocha leads micro1 on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, iMocha (Assessment) opens a 20-point lead on micro1 (Screening), 56 to 36. micro1 leads none of the 7 criteria, and iMocha is ahead on 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (iMocha 44, micro1 20, 18% weight), is only 22% of the weighted advantage iMocha builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
§ The record
iMocha is filed under Assessment AI, micro1 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 | micro1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · micro1 20
4.3 weighted points to iMocha
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
iMocha 68 · micro1 50
3.6 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · micro1 45
3.1 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iMocha 48 · micro1 25
2.8 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · micro1 22
2.4 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · micro1 48
1.9 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · micro1 45
1.7 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +19.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus micro1.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | micro1 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 50 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 20 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 22 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 45 | +21 | +3.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 48 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 25 | +23 | +2.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 45 | +21 | +1.7 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 36 (F) | +20 | +19.8 |
§ 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 | iMocha | micro1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 2 | 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 | 4 | 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 | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 25 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for iMocha and micro1 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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