§ The result
Spark Hire leads TalentLens on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Spark Hire, filed under Video interview, finishes on 53 and TalentLens, filed under Assessment, on 46, 7 points apart. TalentLens is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Spark Hire takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Human Oversight Design, Spark Hire 62 to TalentLens 57. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Spark Hire 62, TalentLens 45 — and at an 18% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
TalentLens
TalentLens, Pearson's workplace psychometrics brand, publishes the Watson-Glaser critical-thinking test, Raven's Adaptive, BMCT-II and DAT Next Generation, which candidates take online and which are scored automatically against norm groups to produce percentile-based reports for hiring and development.
§ The record
Spark Hire is filed under Video interview AI, TalentLens under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Spark Hire | TalentLens |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Spark Hire 62 · TalentLens 45
3.1 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Spark Hire 60 · TalentLens 50
1.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Spark Hire 58 · TalentLens 52
1.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Spark Hire 38 · TalentLens 32
0.7 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Spark Hire 62 · TalentLens 57
0.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Spark Hire 64 · TalentLens 58
0.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +7.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Spark Hire minus TalentLens.
| Category | Weight | Spark Hire | TalentLens | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 32 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 46 (F) | +7 | +7.6 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | TalentLens | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; TalentLens has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire and TalentLens sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for TalentLens, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TalentLens last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next