§ The result
TalentLens leads micro1 on all 7 criteria.
TalentLens sits 10 points above micro1 under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 36 — with TalentLens filed under Assessment and micro1 under Screening. Of the 7 criteria micro1 wins none, and the narrowest lead TalentLens holds is on Article 11 Technical Documentation, micro1 50 to TalentLens 52. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (micro1 20, TalentLens 45) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage TalentLens holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
Vendor profile
TalentLens
TalentLens, Pearson's workplace psychometrics brand, publishes the Watson-Glaser critical-thinking test, Raven's Adaptive, BMCT-II and DAT Next Generation, which candidates take online and which are scored automatically against norm groups to produce percentile-based reports for hiring and development.
§ The record
micro1 is filed under Screening AI, TalentLens 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 | micro1 | TalentLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2022 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
micro1 20 · TalentLens 45
4.5 weighted points to TalentLens
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
micro1 22 · TalentLens 30
1.2 weighted points to TalentLens
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
micro1 48 · TalentLens 57
1.1 weighted points to TalentLens
8% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
micro1 45 · TalentLens 58
1.0 weighted points to TalentLens
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
micro1 25 · TalentLens 32
0.8 weighted points to TalentLens
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
micro1 45 · TalentLens 50
0.8 weighted points to TalentLens
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
micro1 50 · TalentLens 52
0.4 weighted points to TalentLens
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.8 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 -9.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is micro1 minus TalentLens.
| Category | Weight | micro1 | TalentLens | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 45 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 30 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 57 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 46 (F) | -10 | -9.8 |
§ 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 | micro1 | TalentLens | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; TalentLens has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for micro1 and TalentLens sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for TalentLens, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TalentLens last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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