§ The result
Sapia.ai leads Pillar on all 7 criteria.
Sapia.ai finishes 16 points clear of Pillar under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 40 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Sapia.ai leads every one of the 7 criteria, Pillar none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Pillar 30 to Sapia.ai 35. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Pillar 42, Sapia.ai 70, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 35% of the weighted advantage Sapia.ai holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
Vendor profile
Sapia.ai
Structured, text-based chat interview that scores candidates on personality (HEXACO) and competency traits - with no video, audio, or demographic data used.
§ The record
Pillar is filed under Screening AI, Sapia.ai under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pillar | Sapia.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2019 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pillar 42 · Sapia.ai 70
5.6 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pillar 45 · Sapia.ai 62
2.5 weighted points to Sapia.ai
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pillar 38 · Sapia.ai 52
2.5 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pillar 33 · Sapia.ai 50
2.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pillar 48 · Sapia.ai 62
1.7 weighted points to Sapia.ai
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pillar 50 · Sapia.ai 62
1.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pillar 30 · Sapia.ai 35
0.8 weighted points to Sapia.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.1 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 -16.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pillar minus Sapia.ai.
| Category | Weight | Pillar | Sapia.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 70 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 52 | -14 | -2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 50 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 56 (F) | -16 | -16.1 |
§ 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 | Pillar | Sapia.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | 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 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 |
Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Sapia.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sapia.ai 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 Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Sapia.ai, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sapia.ai last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next