§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Breezy HR on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 19 points clear of Breezy HR inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 62 (D) against 43 (F). SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, Breezy HR none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, Breezy HR 58 to SmartRecruiters 63. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Breezy HR 25, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Breezy HR and SmartRecruiters are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Breezy HR | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Breezy HR 25 · SmartRecruiters 78
9.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Breezy HR 50 · SmartRecruiters 70
4.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Breezy HR 30 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Breezy HR 38 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Breezy HR 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Breezy HR 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Breezy HR 58 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Breezy HR minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Breezy HR | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 70 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 78 | -53 | -9.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 48 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 62 (D) | -19 | -19.3 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 11 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Breezy HR and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Breezy HR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Breezy HR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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