Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
hackajob vs SmartRecruiters
hackajob
Archer, hackajob's AI sourcing agent, is calibrated by a recruiter on a hiring brief, then finds, engages and qualifies passive candidates from a 1.5m-member pool and 800m+ indexed profiles and invites those who meet the bar to apply through the employer's existing ATS.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
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.
Concerning
ATS-integrated
The result
SmartRecruiters leads hackajob on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) opens a 17-point lead on hackajob (Sourcing), 62 (D) to 45 (F). SmartRecruiters takes all 7 criteria and hackajob none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, hackajob 60 to SmartRecruiters 63. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — hackajob 20, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 60% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- hackajob0
- SmartRecruiters7
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency20 vs 78
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
hackajob is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | hackajob | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2010 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight60% of the movement so far
hackajob20SmartRecruiters7810.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight72% of the movement so far
hackajob60SmartRecruiters702.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight83% of the movement so far
hackajob32SmartRecruiters451.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight90% of the movement so far
hackajob38SmartRecruiters481.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight95% of the movement so far
hackajob55SmartRecruiters620.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight99% of the movement so far
hackajob58SmartRecruiters620.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
hackajob60SmartRecruiters630.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.3.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus SmartRecruiters, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 78 | -58 | -10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 45 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 48 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45F | 62D | -17 | -17.3 |
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 | hackajob | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 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 SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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