§ The result
4 points separate Talview and impress.ai.
Talview (Video interview) edges impress.ai (Screening) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 42 to 38. Talview leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while impress.ai leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 2 are level. Talview takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (impress.ai 35, Talview 50), which is 48% of the weighted advantage Talview holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, impress.ai 22 to Talview 38.
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
Talview
AI-powered hiring and exam-integrity platform spanning video interviewing, skills assessments, identity verification, and AI proctoring.
§ The record
impress.ai is filed under Screening AI, Talview under Video interview AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Assessment.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | impress.ai | Talview |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
impress.ai 35 · Talview 50
3.0 weighted points to Talview
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
impress.ai 22 · Talview 38
2.9 weighted points to Talview
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
impress.ai 55 · Talview 48
1.1 weighted points to impress.ai
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
impress.ai 58 · Talview 52
0.5 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
impress.ai 52 · Talview 55
0.4 weighted points to Talview
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -4.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is impress.ai minus Talview.
| Category | Weight | impress.ai | Talview | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 38 | -16 | -2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 32 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 42 (F) | -4 | -4.7 |
§ 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 | Talview | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 6 | Sources 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; Talview has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Talview, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talview last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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