§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads ADP on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters sits 14 points above ADP under rubric v1.0, 62 (D) against 48 (F), with both filed under ATS-integrated. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, ADP none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, ADP 45 to SmartRecruiters 48. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ADP 46, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
ADP and SmartRecruiters 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 | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1949 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · SmartRecruiters 78
5.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · SmartRecruiters 70
3.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -14.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | ADP | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 70 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 78 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 45 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 48 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 62 (D) | -14 | -14.1 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters 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: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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