§ The result
Pinpoint leads Avature on all 7 criteria.
Pinpoint scores 57 and Avature 48 under rubric v1.0 — a 9-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Pinpoint is ahead of Avature on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at Avature 40 to Pinpoint 42. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Avature 55, Pinpoint 72) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 40% of the weighted advantage Pinpoint holds across the 7 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
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
§ The record
Avature and Pinpoint 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 | Pinpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | JE |
| Founded | 2004 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avature 55 · Pinpoint 72
3.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avature 58 · Pinpoint 68
1.5 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avature 40 · Pinpoint 52
1.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avature 32 · Pinpoint 38
0.9 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avature 60 · Pinpoint 64
0.5 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avature 60 · Pinpoint 66
0.5 weighted points to Pinpoint
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avature 40 · Pinpoint 42
0.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -8.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avature minus Pinpoint.
| Category | Weight | Avature | Pinpoint | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 72 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 38 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 68 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 57 (F) | -9 | -8.6 |
§ 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 | Avature | Pinpoint | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 18 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Avature has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Avature sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Avature, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next