§ The result
Spark Hire leads X0PA AI by 5 points.
Spark Hire scores 53 and X0PA AI 48 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Video interview and Assessment cohorts. Spark Hire leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while X0PA AI leads 2, including FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Spark Hire 62, X0PA AI 44 — and at an 18% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 5 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
X0PA AI
X0PA AI is a Singapore-based B2B AI recruitment platform (applicant tracking system) that sources, screens, scores, and ranks candidates using proprietary predictive-scoring models (BRIQ Score and Suitability Score) plus the X0PA ROOM video-interview/assessment product, marketed around bias-reduced, "responsible and explainable" AI hiring.
§ The record
Spark Hire is filed under Video interview AI, X0PA AI 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 | X0PA AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2012 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Spark Hire 62 · X0PA AI 44
3.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Spark Hire 58 · X0PA AI 50
1.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Spark Hire 30 · X0PA AI 38
1.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Spark Hire 60 · X0PA AI 56
0.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Spark Hire 62 · X0PA AI 57
0.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Spark Hire 64 · X0PA AI 60
0.3 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Spark Hire 38 · X0PA AI 40
0.2 weighted points to X0PA AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +4.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Spark Hire minus X0PA AI.
| Category | Weight | Spark Hire | X0PA AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 44 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 60 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 48 (F) | +5 | +4.9 |
§ 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 | X0PA AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 12 | 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; X0PA AI has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire and X0PA AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for X0PA AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- X0PA AI last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next