Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Breezy HR vs softgarden
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.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
softgarden
softgarden is a German cloud applicant tracking system (multiposting, career sites, applicant management and onboarding) with optional AI features: AI-Assisted Applicant Matching, which highlights applicants who closely match a job's requirements, and a newer LLM-based Screening Assistant, which scores each applicant against screening criteria.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
1 point separates Breezy HR and softgarden.
Under rubric v1.0, Breezy HR and softgarden finish 1 point apart, 43 to 42, as two ATS-integrated entries. softgarden takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 3 for Breezy HR, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 2 are level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Breezy HR 50, softgarden 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 70% of the weighted advantage Breezy HR holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Breezy HR3
- softgarden2
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation50 vs 42
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Breezy HR and softgarden are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Breezy HR | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2001 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight47% of the movement so far
Breezy HR50softgarden421.6 weighted points to Breezy HR
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight69% of the movement so far
Breezy HR38softgarden440.7 weighted points to softgarden
- 3
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight85% of the movement so far
Breezy HR25softgarden220.5 weighted points to Breezy HR
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight96% of the movement so far
Breezy HR55softgarden580.4 weighted points to softgarden
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Breezy HR55softgarden540.1 weighted points to Breezy HR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +1.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Breezy HR minus softgarden, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Breezy HR | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 22 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 44 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 43F | 42F | +1 | +1.2 |
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 | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 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 | 7 | 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 | 5 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Breezy HR has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Breezy HR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Breezy HR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Breezy HR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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