§ The result
Cangrade and JobAdder tie at 45.
Cangrade, filed under Assessment, and JobAdder, filed under ATS-integrated, tie at 45 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Cangrade leads 3 of the 7 criteria and JobAdder 2, with 2 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cangrade 32, JobAdder 43 — and at a 12% weight it carries 81% of the weighted advantage JobAdder holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
Vendor profile
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
§ The record
Cangrade is filed under Assessment AI, JobAdder under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Cangrade is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cangrade | JobAdder |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2014 | 2007 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cangrade 32 · JobAdder 43
1.3 weighted points to JobAdder
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cangrade 52 · JobAdder 50
0.4 weighted points to Cangrade
8% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cangrade 62 · JobAdder 58
0.3 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cangrade 54 · JobAdder 56
0.3 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cangrade 56 · JobAdder 54
0.2 weighted points to Cangrade
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -0.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cangrade minus JobAdder.
| Category | Weight | Cangrade | JobAdder | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 56 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 54 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 43 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 45 (F) | - | -0.7 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | JobAdder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 3 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 10 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 documented absences; JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cangrade and JobAdder sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains, and 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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