§ The result
3 points separate Spark Hire and Test Partnership.
Spark Hire (Video interview) edges Test Partnership (Assessment) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 53 to 50. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Spark Hire: Spark Hire is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Test Partnership on FRIA Support. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Spark Hire 62, Test Partnership 48) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 57% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
§ The record
Spark Hire is filed under Video interview AI, Test Partnership 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 | Test Partnership |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2012 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Spark Hire 62 · Test Partnership 48
2.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Spark Hire 30 · Test Partnership 36
0.9 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Spark Hire 38 · Test Partnership 33
0.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Spark Hire 62 · Test Partnership 58
0.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Spark Hire 60 · Test Partnership 57
0.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Spark Hire 58 · Test Partnership 57
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Spark Hire 64 · Test Partnership 62
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 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 +3.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Spark Hire minus Test Partnership.
| Category | Weight | Spark Hire | Test Partnership | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 36 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 57 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 50 (F) | +3 | +3.5 |
§ 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 | Test Partnership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 26 | 6 | Sources 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; Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire and Test Partnership sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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