§ The result
2 points separate Breezy HR and Paradox.
Breezy HR (ATS-integrated) edges Paradox (Scheduling) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 43 to 41. Breezy HR leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Paradox leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Paradox — Breezy HR 25, Paradox 50, on an 18% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage Paradox holds across the 1 criterion on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Breezy HR
Breezy HR is an SMB-focused applicant tracking system with a drag-and-drop hiring pipeline, multi-board job distribution, scorecards and interview scheduling, plus a credit-metered AI add-on ("Breezy Intelligence") that scores and ranks applicants against job requirements, audits resumes for AI-generated content, and summarizes candidate activity.
Vendor profile
Paradox
Conversational AI ("Olivia") that screens, schedules, and engages candidates over chat and SMS, often deployed on top of an existing ATS.
§ The record
Breezy HR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Paradox under Scheduling AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Breezy HR | Paradox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Breezy HR 25 · Paradox 50
4.5 weighted points to Paradox
20% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Breezy HR 50 · Paradox 40
2.0 weighted points to Breezy HR
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Breezy HR 55 · Paradox 45
1.5 weighted points to Breezy HR
8% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Breezy HR 58 · Paradox 45
1.0 weighted points to Breezy HR
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Breezy HR 30 · Paradox 25
0.8 weighted points to Breezy HR
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Breezy HR 55 · Paradox 50
0.6 weighted points to Breezy HR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Breezy HR 38 · Paradox 35
0.4 weighted points to Breezy HR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Breezy HR minus Paradox.
| Category | Weight | Breezy HR | Paradox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 50 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 41 (F) | +2 | +1.8 |
§ 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 | Breezy HR | Paradox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Breezy HR has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; Paradox has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Breezy HR and Paradox sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Breezy HR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 10 for Paradox, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Breezy HR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paradox last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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