§ The result
1 point separates TestDome and micro1.
TestDome holds a 1-point edge over micro1 under rubric v1.0, 37 to 36, across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. micro1 takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 5 for TestDome, whose share includes Customer Documentation. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — micro1 takes Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20%, micro1 50 to TestDome 40, 69% of the weighted advantage micro1 holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Customer Documentation, micro1 45 to TestDome 60.
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
TestDome
TestDome sells pay-per-candidate online skills tests for coding, Excel and more than 100 other skills. The tests are scored automatically, and open-ended answers can be scored by AI. AI analysis of webcam and screen proctoring recordings flags possible cheating, and a live code-interview tool is included.
§ The record
micro1 is filed under Screening AI, TestDome 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 | TestDome |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | HR |
| Founded | 2022 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
micro1 50 · TestDome 40
2.0 weighted points to micro1
8% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
micro1 45 · TestDome 60
1.2 weighted points to TestDome
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
micro1 20 · TestDome 15
0.9 weighted points to micro1
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
micro1 22 · TestDome 28
0.9 weighted points to TestDome
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
micro1 45 · TestDome 50
0.8 weighted points to TestDome
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
micro1 25 · TestDome 30
0.6 weighted points to TestDome
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
micro1 48 · TestDome 52
0.5 weighted points to TestDome
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.8 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 -1.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is micro1 minus TestDome.
| Category | Weight | micro1 | TestDome | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 15 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 28 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 52 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 37 (F) | -1 | -1.0 |
§ 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 | TestDome | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 27 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; TestDome has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for micro1 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains, and 31 for TestDome, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestDome last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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