§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Crosschq on 6 of the 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 15 points clear of Crosschq under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 47 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Crosschq is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 SmartRecruiters leads is Customer Documentation, Crosschq 62 to SmartRecruiters 63. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Crosschq 38, SmartRecruiters 78) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Crosschq
Crosschq is a hiring-intelligence platform that combines automated 360 reference checks, an AI Interview Agent that conducts and scores voice/video screening interviews, AI resume matching and ranking, candidate-fraud and identity checks, Traitify personality and cognitive assessments, and quality-of-hire analytics.
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
Crosschq is filed under Screening AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Crosschq is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Crosschq | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Crosschq 38 · SmartRecruiters 78
7.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Crosschq 50 · SmartRecruiters 70
4.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Crosschq 30 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Crosschq 40 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Crosschq 58 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Crosschq 62 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -15.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Crosschq minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Crosschq | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 70 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 78 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 48 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 63 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 62 (D) | -15 | -15.1 |
§ 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 | Crosschq | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Crosschq has 43 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 5 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 Crosschq and SmartRecruiters 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: 43 for Crosschq, across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Crosschq last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next