§ The result
1 point separates impress.ai and Loxo.
impress.ai (Screening) edges Loxo (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 38 to 37. impress.ai leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Loxo leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. impress.ai takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (impress.ai 35, Loxo 30), which is 43% of the weighted advantage impress.ai holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, impress.ai 32 to Loxo 40.
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.
Vendor profile
Loxo
Loxo is an AI-native talent-intelligence platform that combines candidate sourcing, a recruiting CRM, and an applicant tracking system, using proprietary ranking models and a self-built talent graph of 800M+ people to source, rank, and match candidates for recruiting and staffing firms.
§ The record
impress.ai is filed under Screening AI, Loxo under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only impress.ai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | impress.ai | Loxo |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
impress.ai 35 · Loxo 30
1.0 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
impress.ai 32 · Loxo 40
1.0 weighted points to Loxo
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
impress.ai 25 · Loxo 30
0.8 weighted points to Loxo
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
impress.ai 55 · Loxo 50
0.8 weighted points to impress.ai
18% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
impress.ai 22 · Loxo 20
0.4 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
impress.ai 52 · Loxo 50
0.2 weighted points to impress.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is impress.ai minus Loxo.
| Category | Weight | impress.ai | Loxo | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 20 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 37 (F) | +1 | +0.6 |
§ 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 | impress.ai | Loxo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Loxo has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Loxo, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Loxo last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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