§ The result
Checkr leads JobAdder on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Checkr scores 54 and JobAdder 45 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Checkr leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so JobAdder is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Checkr leads is FRIA Support, Checkr 32 to JobAdder 30. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Checkr 70, JobAdder 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage Checkr holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
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
Checkr is filed under Screening AI, JobAdder 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 | JobAdder |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2014 | 2007 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Checkr 70 · JobAdder 50
4.0 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · JobAdder 54
1.4 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · JobAdder 56
0.9 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · JobAdder 43
0.8 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · JobAdder 58
0.8 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · JobAdder 30
0.3 weighted points to Checkr
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +8.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +8.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus JobAdder.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | JobAdder | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 50 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 54 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 43 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 45 (F) | +9 | +8.3 |
§ 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 | Checkr | JobAdder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 4 | 0 | 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 5 | 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; JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for JobAdder sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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