§ The result
3 points separate Ashby and SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, Ashby edges SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 56 to 53. Ashby leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ashby 62, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40 — and at an 18% weight it carries 74% of the weighted advantage Ashby holds across the 4 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
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is the recruiting module of SAP's cloud HCM suite, using AI (career-site skills matching, job-description generation, resume skills extraction and stack-ranking of applicants) delivered under SAP Business AI and the Joule assistant.
§ The record
Ashby and SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Sourcing and Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ashby | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2018 | 1972 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ashby 62 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
4.0 weighted points to Ashby
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ashby 63 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70
1.4 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ashby 42 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 35
1.1 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ashby 58 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 60
0.3 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ashby 42 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
0.2 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ashby 63 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
0.1 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.0 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 +3.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 70 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 53 (F) | +3 | +3.6 |
§ 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 | Ashby | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 17 | 5 | 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; SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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