§ The result
Testlify leads Pillar by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Testlify, filed under Assessment, finishes on 45 and Pillar, filed under Screening, on 40, 5 points apart. Testlify leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Pillar leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The advantage Testlify holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Pillar 42, Testlify 52, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 30% of the weighted points Testlify gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Testlify
Testlify is a skills-assessment and AI-interviewing platform that ranks candidates on a scored leaderboard from pre-built or AI-generated tests, with an AI résumé screener, AI-scored video, voice and chat interviews, and AI-assisted proctoring.
§ The record
Pillar is filed under Screening AI, Testlify 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 | Testlify |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pillar 42 · Testlify 52
2.0 weighted points to Testlify
15% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pillar 45 · Testlify 55
1.5 weighted points to Testlify
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pillar 38 · Testlify 30
1.4 weighted points to Pillar
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pillar 33 · Testlify 42
1.1 weighted points to Testlify
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pillar 48 · Testlify 55
0.8 weighted points to Testlify
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pillar 50 · Testlify 60
0.8 weighted points to Testlify
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pillar 30 · Testlify 33
0.4 weighted points to Testlify
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pillar minus Testlify.
| Category | Weight | Pillar | Testlify | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 42 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 45 (F) | -5 | -5.2 |
§ 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 | Testlify | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Testlify has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain, and 36 for Testlify, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Testlify last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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