§ The result
Greenhouse leads SmartRecruiters by 5 points.
Greenhouse scores 67 and SmartRecruiters 62 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Greenhouse leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while SmartRecruiters leads 1, including FRIA Support. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Greenhouse 58, SmartRecruiters 48) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Greenhouse 78, SmartRecruiters 70), the second being 31% of the weighted advantage Greenhouse holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Greenhouse
End-to-end applicant tracking system and structured-hiring platform, now layered with 'Greenhouse AI' features such as resume parsing, Talent Matching, and interview summarisation.
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
Greenhouse and SmartRecruiters are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Sourcing and Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Greenhouse | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Greenhouse 78 · SmartRecruiters 70
1.6 weighted points to Greenhouse
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Greenhouse 86 · SmartRecruiters 78
1.4 weighted points to Greenhouse
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Greenhouse 58 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.2 weighted points to Greenhouse
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Greenhouse 66 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Greenhouse 42 · SmartRecruiters 45
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Greenhouse 64 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.3 weighted points to Greenhouse
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Greenhouse 64 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.1 weighted points to Greenhouse
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +4.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Greenhouse minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Greenhouse | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 70 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 86 | 78 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 63 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 67 (D) | 62 (D) | +5 | +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 | Greenhouse | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 1 | 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 |
Greenhouse has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Greenhouse and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Greenhouse, across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Greenhouse last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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