§ The result
Sense leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 separates Sense and XOR, both Screening entries, by 28 points: 58 for Sense, 30 for XOR. Sense leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; XOR leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Sense 72, XOR 18, 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
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.
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
Sense and XOR are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Sense | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sense 72 · XOR 18
9.7 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sense 60 · XOR 20
8.0 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sense 64 · XOR 40
2.9 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sense 58 · XOR 42
2.4 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sense 52 · XOR 33
2.3 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sense 38 · XOR 25
1.9 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sense 62 · XOR 48
1.1 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +28.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 28.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +28 beside that +28.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sense minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Sense | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 20 | +40 | +8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 18 | +54 | +9.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 40 | +24 | +2.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 33 | +19 | +2.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 30 (F) | +28 | +28.3 |
§ 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 | Sense | 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% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 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 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
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