§ The result
4 points separate SmartRecruiters and Fuel50.
SmartRecruiters holds a 4-point edge over Fuel50 under rubric v1.0, 62 (D) to 58 (F), across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. Fuel50 takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 5 for SmartRecruiters, whose share includes FRIA Support, and 1 is level. FRIA Support is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fuel50 32, SmartRecruiters 45 — and at a 15% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Fuel50
Fuel50 is an AI internal talent marketplace and workforce-transformation platform that matches employees to internal roles, gigs, mentors, learning and career paths, and fit-scores and ranks internal candidates for open roles and succession pipelines, using a skills ontology curated by in-house I/O psychologists.
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
Fuel50 is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Fuel50 is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Fuel50 | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 37% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fuel50 32 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fuel50 68 · SmartRecruiters 78
1.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fuel50 40 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fuel50 64 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.3 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fuel50 61 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fuel50 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 -4.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fuel50 minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Fuel50 | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 70 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 78 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 45 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 62 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 48 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 63 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 62 (D) | -4 | -4.6 |
§ 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 | Fuel50 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Fuel50 has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 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 Fuel50 and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Fuel50, across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fuel50 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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