§ The result
3 points separate Avature and JobAdder.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, Avature edges JobAdder by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 45. Avature leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while JobAdder leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. Human Oversight Design is the widest raw gap (Avature 60, JobAdder 54) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Avature 55, JobAdder 50), 30% of the weighted advantage Avature builds 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
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
§ The record
Avature and JobAdder 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 | JobAdder |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2004 | 2007 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avature 55 · JobAdder 50
1.0 weighted points to Avature
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avature 40 · JobAdder 35
0.9 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avature 60 · JobAdder 54
0.7 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avature 40 · JobAdder 43
0.4 weighted points to JobAdder
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avature 32 · JobAdder 30
0.3 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avature 58 · JobAdder 56
0.3 weighted points to Avature
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avature 60 · JobAdder 58
0.2 weighted points to Avature
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.7 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 +3.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avature minus JobAdder.
| Category | Weight | Avature | JobAdder | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 43 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 45 (F) | +3 | +3.0 |
§ 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 | JobAdder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources 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; JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Avature and JobAdder sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Avature, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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