§ The result
Ashby leads Breezy HR on all 7 criteria.
Ashby sits 13 points above Breezy HR under rubric v1.0, 56 against 43, with both filed under ATS-integrated. Ashby leads every one of the 7 criteria, Breezy HR none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Ashby 58 to Breezy HR 55. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ashby 62, Breezy HR 25 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage Ashby holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform combining applicant tracking, CRM/sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, with embedded AI features including resume-to-criteria evaluation, AI-assisted application review, sourcing outreach, and scheduling agents.
Vendor profile
Breezy HR
Breezy HR is an SMB-focused applicant tracking system with a drag-and-drop hiring pipeline, multi-board job distribution, scorecards and interview scheduling, plus a credit-metered AI add-on ("Breezy Intelligence") that scores and ranks applicants against job requirements, audits resumes for AI-generated content, and summarizes candidate activity.
§ The record
Ashby and Breezy HR are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 3 secondary categories: Sourcing, Scheduling and Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ashby | Breezy HR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ashby 62 · Breezy HR 25
6.7 weighted points to Ashby
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ashby 63 · Breezy HR 50
2.6 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ashby 42 · Breezy HR 30
1.8 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ashby 62 · Breezy HR 55
0.8 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ashby 42 · Breezy HR 38
0.5 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ashby 58 · Breezy HR 55
0.4 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ashby 63 · Breezy HR 58
0.4 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus Breezy HR.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | Breezy HR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 25 | +37 | +6.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 43 (F) | +13 | +13.2 |
§ 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 | Ashby | Breezy HR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 23 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Breezy HR has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Breezy HR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 28 for Breezy HR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Breezy HR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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