§ The result
softgarden leads Entelo on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, softgarden, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 42 and Entelo, filed under Sourcing, on 33, 9 points apart. softgarden takes all 7 criteria from Entelo without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Bias Audit Transparency, Entelo 20 to softgarden 22. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Entelo 40, softgarden 58) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Entelo 30, softgarden 42), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage softgarden holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Entelo
Entelo is an AI-powered talent sourcing and diversity-recruiting platform that aggregates hundreds of millions of public candidate profiles and applies predictive machine-learning models to score, rank, and surface (including underrepresented) candidates for recruiters.
Vendor profile
softgarden
softgarden is a German cloud applicant tracking system (multiposting, career sites, applicant management and onboarding) with optional AI features: AI-Assisted Applicant Matching, which highlights applicants who closely match a job's requirements, and a newer LLM-based Screening Assistant, which scores each applicant against screening criteria.
§ The record
Entelo is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, softgarden under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Entelo | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2011 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Entelo 30 · softgarden 42
2.4 weighted points to softgarden
12% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Entelo 42 · softgarden 58
1.9 weighted points to softgarden
8% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Entelo 40 · softgarden 58
1.4 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Entelo 45 · softgarden 54
1.3 weighted points to softgarden
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Entelo 35 · softgarden 44
1.1 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Entelo 25 · softgarden 30
0.8 weighted points to softgarden
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Entelo 20 · softgarden 22
0.4 weighted points to softgarden
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.3 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 -9.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Entelo minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | Entelo | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 22 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 44 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 42 (F) | -9 | -9.3 |
§ 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 | Entelo | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | — | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Entelo has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Entelo, across 3 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Entelo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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