§ The result
Pillar leads XOR on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Pillar sits 10 points above XOR under rubric v1.0, 40 against 30, with both filed under Screening. Pillar leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so XOR is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Pillar leads is Customer Documentation, Pillar 50 to XOR 48. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Pillar 42, XOR 20 — and at a 20% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Pillar holds across the 6 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
Pillar and XOR 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 | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pillar 42 · XOR 20
4.4 weighted points to Pillar
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pillar 38 · XOR 18
3.6 weighted points to Pillar
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pillar 48 · XOR 40
1.0 weighted points to Pillar
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pillar 30 · XOR 25
0.8 weighted points to Pillar
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pillar 45 · XOR 42
0.4 weighted points to Pillar
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pillar 50 · XOR 48
0.2 weighted points to Pillar
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +10.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pillar minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Pillar | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 18 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 33 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 30 (F) | +10 | +10.3 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
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 XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
Scored against