§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Emmersion on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) opens an 18-point lead on Emmersion (Assessment), 62 (D) to 44 (F). Of the 7 criteria Emmersion wins none, and the narrowest lead SmartRecruiters holds is on Customer Documentation, Emmersion 60 to SmartRecruiters 63. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Emmersion 28, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
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
Emmersion is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Emmersion is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Emmersion | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emmersion 28 · SmartRecruiters 78
9.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emmersion 57 · SmartRecruiters 70
2.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emmersion 30 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emmersion 50 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emmersion 38 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emmersion 53 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emmersion 60 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 70 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 78 | -50 | -9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 62 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 48 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 62 (D) | -18 | -18.2 |
§ 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 | Emmersion | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 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 |
Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 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 Emmersion and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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