§ The result
Sense leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Sense finishes 24 points clear of Zappyhire inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 58 against 34. Sense leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Zappyhire leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Sense 72, Zappyhire 28, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 33% 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Sense and Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Sense | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2016 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sense 72 · Zappyhire 28
7.9 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sense 60 · Zappyhire 30
6.0 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sense 52 · Zappyhire 28
2.9 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sense 58 · Zappyhire 42
2.4 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sense 38 · Zappyhire 25
1.9 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sense 64 · Zappyhire 50
1.7 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sense 62 · Zappyhire 45
1.4 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +24.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +24 beside that +24.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sense minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Sense | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 30 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 28 | +44 | +7.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 50 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 28 | +24 | +2.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 34 (F) | +24 | +24.2 |
§ 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 | Sense | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sense and Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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