§ The result
3 points separate Avionté and Zoho Recruit.
Avionté holds a 3-point edge over Zoho Recruit under rubric v1.0, 45 to 42, with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Avionté, with 1 level: Avionté is ahead on Human Oversight Design and Zoho Recruit on Bias Audit Transparency. Human Oversight Design is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Avionté 60, Zoho Recruit 50, 12% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage Avionté holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Avionté
AviontéBOLD is a front- and back-office platform for staffing agencies (ATS/CRM, onboarding, payroll and billing): its AI Matching Agent ranks candidates already in an agency's database for each job, and its Claude-powered PIXEL chatbot pre-screens and scores applicants.
Vendor profile
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Avionté and Zoho Recruit 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. Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Avionté | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2005 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avionté 60 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.2 weighted points to Avionté
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avionté 50 · Zoho Recruit 45
1.0 weighted points to Avionté
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avionté 35 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.8 weighted points to Avionté
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avionté 45 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.6 weighted points to Avionté
18% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avionté 22 · Zoho Recruit 24
0.4 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avionté 62 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.2 weighted points to Avionté
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.1 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 +3.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avionté minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Avionté | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 24 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 42 (F) | +3 | +3.4 |
§ 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 | Avionté | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Avionté has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Avionté sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Avionté, across 4 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avionté last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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