§ The result
Spark Hire leads Workstream on all 7 criteria.
Spark Hire sits 14 points above Workstream under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 39 — with Spark Hire filed under Video interview and Workstream under Screening. Spark Hire leads every one of the 7 criteria, Workstream none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Spark Hire 62 to Workstream 61. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Spark Hire 62, Workstream 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 51% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 7 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
Workstream
Workstream is a mobile-first HR, payroll and hiring platform for hourly, multi-location employers such as QSR franchisees. Its hiring suite pairs a text-to-apply applicant tracking system with VoiceAI phone screens and VideoAI asynchronous video interviews, which return transcripts, AI summaries, pass/fail results for each question and match scores.
§ The record
Spark Hire is filed under Video interview AI, Workstream under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Spark Hire | Workstream |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Spark Hire 62 · Workstream 20
7.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Spark Hire 58 · Workstream 40
3.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Spark Hire 60 · Workstream 47
1.9 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Spark Hire 64 · Workstream 56
0.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Spark Hire 30 · Workstream 27
0.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Spark Hire 38 · Workstream 35
0.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Spark Hire 62 · Workstream 61
0.1 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Spark Hire minus Workstream.
| Category | Weight | Spark Hire | Workstream | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 20 | +42 | +7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 47 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 56 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 39 (F) | +14 | +14.7 |
§ 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 | Workstream | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 5 | 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 domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 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 | 28 | 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; Workstream has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire and Workstream sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Workstream, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workstream last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next