§ The result
4 points separate 365Talents and softgarden.
365Talents holds a 4-point edge over softgarden under rubric v1.0, 46 to 42, across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to 365Talents and softgarden, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side 365Talents holds, headed by Article 11 Technical Documentation, settle the total. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — 365Talents 63, softgarden 42 — and at a 20% weight it carries 76% of the weighted advantage 365Talents holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
365Talents
365Talents is an AI skills-intelligence and internal talent-marketplace platform that infers employees' skills from HRIS records, CVs, documents and collaboration tools, then matches them to internal jobs, projects, gigs, mentors, learning and succession pipelines.
Vendor profile
softgarden
softgarden is a German cloud applicant tracking system (multiposting, career sites, applicant management and onboarding) with optional AI features: AI-Assisted Applicant Matching, which highlights applicants who closely match a job's requirements, and a newer LLM-based Screening Assistant, which scores each applicant against screening criteria.
§ The record
365Talents is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, softgarden under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only 365Talents is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | 365Talents | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | FR | DE |
| Founded | 2015 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
365Talents 63 · softgarden 42
4.2 weighted points to 365Talents
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
365Talents 35 · softgarden 30
0.8 weighted points to 365Talents
18% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
365Talents 18 · softgarden 22
0.7 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
365Talents 58 · softgarden 54
0.6 weighted points to 365Talents
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
365Talents 57 · softgarden 58
0.1 weighted points to softgarden
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
365Talents 57 · softgarden 58
0.1 weighted points to softgarden
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 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 +4.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is 365Talents minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | 365Talents | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 42 | +21 | +4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 22 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 44 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 58 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 42 (F) | +4 | +4.6 |
§ 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 | 365Talents | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
365Talents has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 74 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for 365Talents, across 3 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- 365Talents last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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