§ The result
HiredScore takes the total, Avature takes more of the criteria.
HiredScore holds a 4-point edge over Avature under rubric v1.0, 52 to 48, across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Avature leads more of the criteria, 3 against 2 for HiredScore, yet HiredScore takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Avature 40, HiredScore 55 — and at an 18% weight it carries 57% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 2 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
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
§ The record
Avature is filed under ATS-integrated AI, HiredScore under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Avature is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Avature | HiredScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avature 40 · HiredScore 55
2.7 weighted points to HiredScore
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avature 55 · HiredScore 65
2.0 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avature 40 · HiredScore 35
0.6 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avature 58 · HiredScore 55
0.4 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avature 32 · HiredScore 30
0.3 weighted points to Avature
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -3.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avature minus HiredScore.
| Category | Weight | Avature | HiredScore | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 52 (F) | -4 | -3.3 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
Avature has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Avature and HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Avature, across 3 distinct source domains, and 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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