§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Harver by 6 points.
SmartRecruiters scores 62 (D) and Harver 56 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while Harver leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Human Oversight Design (Harver 50, SmartRecruiters 62) and FRIA Support at 15% (Harver 35, SmartRecruiters 45), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Harver
Pre-employment assessment suite covering cognitive ability, behavioral, and situational judgement, including the legacy Pymetrics games product.
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
Harver is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Harver is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Harver | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 23% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Harver 35 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Harver 50 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Harver 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Harver 65 · SmartRecruiters 70
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Harver 40 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
18% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Harver 80 · SmartRecruiters 78
0.4 weighted points to Harver
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Harver 60 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Harver minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Harver | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 70 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 78 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 48 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 62 (D) | -6 | -5.8 |
§ 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 | Harver | 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 the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Harver has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 0 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 23 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Harver, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Harver last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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