§ The result
X0PA AI leads Pillar on all 7 criteria.
X0PA AI scores 48 and Pillar 40 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. X0PA AI is ahead of Pillar on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at Pillar 38 to X0PA AI 44. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Pillar 45, X0PA AI 56, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 20% of the weighted advantage X0PA 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
X0PA AI
X0PA AI is a Singapore-based B2B AI recruitment platform (applicant tracking system) that sources, screens, scores, and ranks candidates using proprietary predictive-scoring models (BRIQ Score and Suitability Score) plus the X0PA ROOM video-interview/assessment product, marketed around bias-reduced, "responsible and explainable" AI hiring.
§ The record
Pillar is filed under Screening AI, X0PA 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 | X0PA AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2019 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 20% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pillar 45 · X0PA AI 56
1.6 weighted points to X0PA AI
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pillar 42 · X0PA AI 50
1.6 weighted points to X0PA AI
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pillar 30 · X0PA AI 38
1.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
18% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pillar 38 · X0PA AI 44
1.1 weighted points to X0PA AI
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pillar 48 · X0PA AI 57
1.1 weighted points to X0PA AI
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pillar 33 · X0PA AI 40
0.8 weighted points to X0PA AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pillar 50 · X0PA AI 60
0.8 weighted points to X0PA AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -8.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pillar minus X0PA AI.
| Category | Weight | Pillar | X0PA AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 44 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 56 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 57 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 40 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 48 (F) | -8 | -8.3 |
§ 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 | X0PA AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 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 | 12 | 6 | Sources 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; X0PA AI has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for X0PA AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for X0PA AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- X0PA AI last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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