§ The result
4 points separate Avature and JazzHR.
Under rubric v1.0, Avature and JazzHR finish 4 points apart, 48 to 44, as two ATS-integrated entries. JazzHR takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 6 for Avature, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Avature 55, JazzHR 45) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 40% of the weighted advantage Avature holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
JazzHR
JazzHR is a small-business applicant tracking system that manages job posting, applications and hiring workflows, and layers on AI "Talent Fit" scoring that ranks candidates against a job description plus automated knockout screening questions.
§ The record
Avature and JazzHR 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 | Avature | JazzHR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2009 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avature 55 · JazzHR 45
2.0 weighted points to Avature
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avature 40 · JazzHR 35
0.9 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avature 58 · JazzHR 52
0.9 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avature 32 · JazzHR 28
0.6 weighted points to Avature
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avature 60 · JazzHR 56
0.3 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avature 60 · JazzHR 58
0.2 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avature 40 · JazzHR 42
0.2 weighted points to JazzHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.2 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 +4.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avature minus JazzHR.
| Category | Weight | Avature | JazzHR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 28 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 44 (F) | +4 | +4.7 |
§ 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 | JazzHR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 17 | 7 | 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; JazzHR has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Avature and JazzHR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Avature, across 3 distinct source domains, and 24 for JazzHR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JazzHR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next