§ The result
micro1 leads XOR by 6 points.
micro1 finishes 6 points ahead of XOR under rubric v1.0, 36 to 30, both scored as Screening entries. XOR takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 4 for micro1, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — micro1 50, XOR 20 — and at a 20% weight it carries 77% of the weighted advantage micro1 holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
micro1 and XOR are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only micro1 is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | micro1 | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2022 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
micro1 50 · XOR 20
6.0 weighted points to micro1
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
micro1 48 · XOR 40
1.0 weighted points to micro1
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
micro1 25 · XOR 33
1.0 weighted points to XOR
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
micro1 22 · XOR 25
0.4 weighted points to XOR
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
micro1 45 · XOR 42
0.4 weighted points to micro1
18% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
micro1 20 · XOR 18
0.4 weighted points to micro1
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
micro1 45 · XOR 48
0.2 weighted points to XOR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +6.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +6.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is micro1 minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | micro1 | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 20 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 18 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 25 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 33 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 48 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 30 (F) | +6 | +6.1 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | 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; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
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