§ The result
softgarden leads Aon Assessment by 7 points.
Under rubric v1.0, softgarden, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 42 and Aon Assessment, filed under Assessment, on 35, 7 points apart. softgarden leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while Aon Assessment leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Aon Assessment 25, softgarden 44) and Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (Aon Assessment 38, softgarden 54), the second being 29% of the weighted advantage softgarden holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Aon Assessment
Aon Assessment Solutions (formerly cut-e) provides enterprise pre-hire psychometric assessments - ability, personality (ADEPT-15), situational-judgement, gamified cognitive (smartPredict/gridChallenge) tests and an AI-scored video interview tool (vidAssess-AI) - used to screen and rank job applicants at scale.
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
Aon Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, softgarden under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Aon Assessment is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Aon Assessment | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | DE |
| Founded | 2002 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Aon Assessment 38 · softgarden 54
2.4 weighted points to softgarden
12% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Aon Assessment 25 · softgarden 44
2.3 weighted points to softgarden
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Aon Assessment 45 · softgarden 58
1.6 weighted points to softgarden
18% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Aon Assessment 30 · softgarden 22
1.4 weighted points to Aon Assessment
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Aon Assessment 48 · softgarden 58
0.8 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Aon Assessment 25 · softgarden 30
0.8 weighted points to softgarden
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Aon Assessment 40 · softgarden 42
0.4 weighted points to softgarden
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Aon Assessment minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | Aon Assessment | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 38 | 54 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 44 | -19 | -2.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 42 (F) | -7 | -6.7 |
§ 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 | Aon Assessment | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Aon Assessment has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Aon Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Aon Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Aon Assessment last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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