Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Greenhouse vs softgarden
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.
Concerning
ATS-integrated
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.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Greenhouse leads softgarden on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Greenhouse scores 67 (D) to 42 (F) for softgarden, a 25-point gap between two ATS-integrated entries. Greenhouse takes all 7 criteria and softgarden none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, Greenhouse 64 to softgarden 58. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Greenhouse 86, softgarden 22 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Greenhouse holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Greenhouse7
- softgarden0
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency86 vs 22
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Greenhouse and softgarden are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Greenhouse | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2012 | 2001 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight46% of the movement so far
Greenhouse86softgarden2211.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight74% of the movement so far
Greenhouse78softgarden427.2 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight82% of the movement so far
Greenhouse42softgarden301.8 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight88% of the movement so far
Greenhouse58softgarden441.7 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight94% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64softgarden541.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight98% of the movement so far
Greenhouse66softgarden581.0 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64softgarden580.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +25.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 25.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +25 beside that +25.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Greenhouse minus softgarden, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Greenhouse | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 42 | +36 | +7.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 86 | 22 | +64 | +11.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 54 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 44 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 67D | 42F | +25 | +25.1 |
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 | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Greenhouse has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Greenhouse 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: 17 for Greenhouse, across 3 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Greenhouse last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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