§ The result
Pymetrics (Harver Games) takes the total, Spark Hire takes more of the criteria.
Pymetrics (Harver Games) (Assessment) edges Spark Hire (Video interview) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 56 to 53. Spark Hire leads more of the criteria than Pymetrics (Harver Games) — 4 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Pymetrics (Harver Games). Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80, Spark Hire 62 — and at an 18% weight it carries 57% of the weighted advantage Pymetrics (Harver Games) holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Behavioral assessment using browser-based "games" that infer cognitive and emotional traits. Acquired by Harver in 2022 and folded into the Harver Games product line.
Vendor profile
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Pymetrics (Harver Games) is filed under Assessment AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80 · Spark Hire 62
3.2 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 70 · Spark Hire 58
2.4 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 50 · Spark Hire 62
1.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 25 · Spark Hire 30
0.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 55 · Spark Hire 64
0.7 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 35 · Spark Hire 38
0.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +2.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pymetrics (Harver Games) minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 58 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 62 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 64 | -9 | -0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 53 (F) | +3 | +2.4 |
§ 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 | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pymetrics (Harver Games) has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Pymetrics (Harver Games) and Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Pymetrics (Harver Games), across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pymetrics (Harver Games) last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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