§ The result
iMocha leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
iMocha finishes 22 points clear of Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 34 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. iMocha leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; Zappyhire leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (iMocha 68, Zappyhire 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 35% 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
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
iMocha is filed under Assessment AI, Zappyhire 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 | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | IN |
| Founded | 2015 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
iMocha 68 · Zappyhire 30
7.6 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · Zappyhire 42
3.6 weighted points to iMocha
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · Zappyhire 28
2.9 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
iMocha 48 · Zappyhire 28
2.4 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · Zappyhire 25
1.9 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · Zappyhire 50
1.7 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · Zappyhire 45
1.7 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +22 beside that +21.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 30 | +38 | +7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 28 | +16 | +2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 42 | +24 | +3.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 28 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 45 | +21 | +1.7 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 34 (F) | +22 | +21.8 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for iMocha and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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