§ The result
Sense leads Pillar on all 7 criteria.
Sense finishes 18 points clear of Pillar inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 58 against 40. Sense leads every one of the 7 criteria, Pillar none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Pillar 30 to Sense 38. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Pillar 38, Sense 72, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage Sense 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
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
§ The record
Pillar and Sense are both filed under Screening 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 Pillar is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pillar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pillar 38 · Sense 72
6.1 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pillar 42 · Sense 60
3.6 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pillar 33 · Sense 52
2.3 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pillar 45 · Sense 58
1.9 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pillar 48 · Sense 64
1.9 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pillar 30 · Sense 38
1.2 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pillar 50 · Sense 62
1.0 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pillar minus Sense.
| Category | Weight | Pillar | Sense | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 72 | -34 | -6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 64 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 52 | -19 | -2.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 58 (F) | -18 | -18.0 |
§ 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 | Pillar | Sense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 3 | 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; Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sense sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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