§ The result
2 points separate Darwinbox and JazzHR.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, Darwinbox edges JazzHR by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 44. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Darwinbox: Darwinbox is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and JazzHR on Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Darwinbox 60, JazzHR 45) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 70% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
Vendor profile
JazzHR
JazzHR is a small-business applicant tracking system that manages job posting, applications and hiring workflows, and layers on AI "Talent Fit" scoring that ranks candidates against a job description plus automated knockout screening questions.
§ The record
Darwinbox and JazzHR are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Darwinbox | JazzHR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2009 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · JazzHR 45
3.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · JazzHR 35
1.3 weighted points to JazzHR
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · JazzHR 52
0.9 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · JazzHR 42
0.8 weighted points to JazzHR
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · JazzHR 58
0.4 weighted points to JazzHR
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · JazzHR 28
0.3 weighted points to Darwinbox
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · JazzHR 56
0.1 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus JazzHR.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | JazzHR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 45 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 42 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 44 (F) | +2 | +1.8 |
§ 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 | Darwinbox | JazzHR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 17 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; JazzHR has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for JazzHR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 24 for JazzHR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JazzHR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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