§ The result
Greenhouse leads Checkr by 13 points.
Greenhouse sits 13 points above Checkr under rubric v1.0 — 67 (D) against 54 (F) — with Greenhouse filed under ATS-integrated and Checkr under Screening. Greenhouse leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Checkr leads 1, including Customer Documentation, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Checkr 35, Greenhouse 86 — and at an 18% weight it carries 68% of the weighted advantage Greenhouse holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Checkr
Checkr is an FCRA-regulated background screening platform that uses machine learning to parse, classify and standardize criminal, employment, education and motor-vehicle records, and to route them through customer-configured adjudication rulesets that flag candidates as eligible, review or escalated for employment decisions.
Vendor profile
Greenhouse
End-to-end applicant tracking system and structured-hiring platform, now layered with 'Greenhouse AI' features such as resume parsing, Talent Matching, and interview summarisation.
§ The record
Checkr is filed under Screening AI, Greenhouse under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Checkr | Greenhouse |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Checkr 35 · Greenhouse 86
9.2 weighted points to Greenhouse
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Checkr 70 · Greenhouse 78
1.6 weighted points to Greenhouse
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · Greenhouse 42
1.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · Greenhouse 58
1.0 weighted points to Greenhouse
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · Greenhouse 64
0.3 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · Greenhouse 64
0.3 weighted points to Greenhouse
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -13.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus Greenhouse.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | Greenhouse | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 78 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 86 | -51 | -9.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 42 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 66 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 64 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 67 (D) | -13 | -13.2 |
§ 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 | Checkr | Greenhouse | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Greenhouse has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; some documentation or audit rows for Greenhouse sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Greenhouse, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Greenhouse last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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