§ The result
X0PA AI leads impress.ai on all 7 criteria.
X0PA AI sits 10 points above impress.ai under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 38 — with X0PA AI filed under Assessment and impress.ai under Screening. X0PA AI leads every one of the 7 criteria, impress.ai none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, impress.ai 55 to X0PA AI 56. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (impress.ai 22, X0PA AI 44, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 37% of the weighted advantage X0PA AI holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
X0PA AI
X0PA AI is a Singapore-based B2B AI recruitment platform (applicant tracking system) that sources, screens, scores, and ranks candidates using proprietary predictive-scoring models (BRIQ Score and Suitability Score) plus the X0PA ROOM video-interview/assessment product, marketed around bias-reduced, "responsible and explainable" AI hiring.
§ The record
impress.ai is filed under Screening AI, X0PA AI under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | impress.ai | X0PA AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | SG | SG |
| Founded | 2017 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
impress.ai 22 · X0PA AI 44
4.0 weighted points to X0PA AI
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
impress.ai 35 · X0PA AI 50
3.0 weighted points to X0PA AI
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
impress.ai 25 · X0PA AI 38
1.9 weighted points to X0PA AI
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
impress.ai 32 · X0PA AI 40
1.0 weighted points to X0PA AI
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
impress.ai 52 · X0PA AI 57
0.6 weighted points to X0PA AI
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
impress.ai 58 · X0PA AI 60
0.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
impress.ai 55 · X0PA AI 56
0.1 weighted points to X0PA AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is impress.ai minus X0PA AI.
| Category | Weight | impress.ai | X0PA AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 44 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 57 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 48 (F) | -10 | -10.8 |
§ 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 | impress.ai | X0PA AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 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 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; X0PA AI has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for X0PA AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for X0PA AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- X0PA AI last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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