§ The result
Spark Hire leads Loxo by 16 points.
Spark Hire finishes 16 points clear of Loxo under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 37 — across the Video interview and Sourcing cohorts. Spark Hire leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Loxo leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Loxo 20, Spark Hire 62 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Loxo is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Spark Hire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Loxo | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Loxo 20 · Spark Hire 62
7.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Loxo 30 · Spark Hire 58
5.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Loxo 50 · Spark Hire 60
1.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Loxo 50 · Spark Hire 62
1.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Loxo 58 · Spark Hire 64
0.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Loxo 40 · Spark Hire 38
0.2 weighted points to Loxo
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -16.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Loxo minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Loxo | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 58 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 62 | -42 | -7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 53 (F) | -16 | -16.3 |
§ 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 | Loxo | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Loxo has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Loxo, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Loxo last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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