§ The result
Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads Paradox on 4 of the 7 criteria.
Pymetrics (Harver Games) finishes 15 points clear of Paradox under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 41 — across the Assessment and Scheduling cohorts. Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads 4 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 3 are level, so Paradox is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 4 Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads is Customer Documentation, Paradox 45 to Pymetrics (Harver Games) 55. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Paradox 40, Pymetrics (Harver Games) 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Pymetrics (Harver Games) holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Paradox
Conversational AI ("Olivia") that screens, schedules, and engages candidates over chat and SMS, often deployed on top of an existing ATS.
Vendor profile
Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Behavioral assessment using browser-based "games" that infer cognitive and emotional traits. Acquired by Harver in 2022 and folded into the Harver Games product line.
§ The record
Paradox is filed under Scheduling AI, Pymetrics (Harver Games) under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Pymetrics (Harver Games) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Paradox | Pymetrics (Harver Games) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Paradox 40 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 70
6.0 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Paradox 50 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80
5.4 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Paradox 45 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 60
2.3 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Paradox 45 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 55
0.8 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -14.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Paradox minus Pymetrics (Harver Games).
| Category | Weight | Paradox | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 80 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 56 (F) | -15 | -14.4 |
§ 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 | Paradox | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Paradox has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Pymetrics (Harver Games) has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Paradox and Pymetrics (Harver Games) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 21 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Paradox, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Pymetrics (Harver Games), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Paradox last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pymetrics (Harver Games) last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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