§ The result
Vincere leads Zappyhire by 10 points.
Vincere, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 10 points above Zappyhire, filed under Screening: 44 against 34 under rubric v1.0. Vincere leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Zappyhire leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Vincere 55, Zappyhire 30 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Vincere holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Vincere
Access Vincere Evo is a recruitment-agency CRM and ATS from The Access Group whose Copilot AI scores candidates against a job on a 1-5 star scale, ranks the closest matches from the agency database, and generates job ads, candidate summaries and screening chatbots.
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
Vincere is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Zappyhire 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 | Vincere | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 2012 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Vincere 55 · Zappyhire 30
5.0 weighted points to Vincere
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Vincere 38 · Zappyhire 25
1.9 weighted points to Vincere
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Vincere 55 · Zappyhire 42
1.9 weighted points to Vincere
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Vincere 18 · Zappyhire 28
1.8 weighted points to Zappyhire
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Vincere 40 · Zappyhire 28
1.4 weighted points to Vincere
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Vincere 60 · Zappyhire 45
1.2 weighted points to Vincere
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Vincere 55 · Zappyhire 50
0.6 weighted points to Vincere
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Vincere minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Vincere | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 30 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 28 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 34 (F) | +10 | +10.3 |
§ 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 | Vincere | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Vincere has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 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 Vincere and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Vincere, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Vincere last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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