§ The result
3 points separate Avature and Cangrade.
Avature (ATS-integrated) edges Cangrade (Assessment) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 45. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Avature: Avature is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Cangrade on Customer Documentation. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Avature 40, Cangrade 32, 12% weight), but it accounts for only 25% of the weighted advantage Avature holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Avature
Avature is an enterprise talent acquisition and talent management platform (recruiting CRM, ATS, onboarding and internal mobility) with built-in AI for semantic search, explainable weighted candidate matching and ranking, candidate fraud detection and configurable recruiting agents.
Vendor profile
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
§ The record
Avature is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Cangrade under Assessment 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. Only Cangrade is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Avature | Cangrade |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avature 40 · Cangrade 32
1.0 weighted points to Avature
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avature 40 · Cangrade 35
0.9 weighted points to Avature
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avature 55 · Cangrade 52
0.6 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avature 58 · Cangrade 54
0.6 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avature 60 · Cangrade 56
0.5 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avature 32 · Cangrade 30
0.3 weighted points to Avature
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avature 60 · Cangrade 62
0.2 weighted points to Cangrade
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.0 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 +3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avature minus Cangrade.
| Category | Weight | Avature | Cangrade | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 32 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 45 (F) | +3 | +3.7 |
§ 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 | Avature | Cangrade | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 3 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 10 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Avature has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Avature and Cangrade sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Avature, across 3 distinct source domains, and 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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