§ The result
3 points separate ADP and JobAdder.
ADP holds a 3-point edge over JobAdder under rubric v1.0, 48 to 45, with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. JobAdder takes 1 of the 7 criteria, FRIA Support among them, against 5 for ADP, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ADP 46, JobAdder 35 — and at an 18% weight it carries 64% of the weighted advantage ADP holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
§ The record
ADP and JobAdder are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ADP | JobAdder |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 1949 | 2007 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · JobAdder 35
2.0 weighted points to ADP
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · JobAdder 50
0.6 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · JobAdder 30
0.3 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · JobAdder 43
0.2 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · JobAdder 56
0.1 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · JobAdder 54
0.1 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +2.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus JobAdder.
| Category | Weight | ADP | JobAdder | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 50 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 35 | +11 | +2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 43 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 45 (F) | +3 | +2.8 |
§ 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 | ADP | JobAdder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for JobAdder sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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