§ The result
4 points separate Zappyhire and XOR.
Within the Screening cohort, Zappyhire edges XOR by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 34 to 30. Zappyhire leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while XOR leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 2 are level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — XOR 20, Zappyhire 30 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Zappyhire holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
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
XOR and Zappyhire are both filed 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 | XOR | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2016 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
XOR 20 · Zappyhire 30
2.0 weighted points to Zappyhire
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
XOR 18 · Zappyhire 28
1.8 weighted points to Zappyhire
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
XOR 40 · Zappyhire 50
1.2 weighted points to Zappyhire
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
XOR 33 · Zappyhire 28
0.6 weighted points to XOR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
XOR 48 · Zappyhire 45
0.2 weighted points to XOR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -4.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is XOR minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | XOR | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 28 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 28 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 34 (F) | -4 | -4.2 |
§ 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 | XOR | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 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 Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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