§ The result
HeyMilo leads softgarden on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, HeyMilo (Screening) opens a 19-point lead on softgarden (ATS-integrated), 61 (D) to 42 (F). HeyMilo leads every one of the 7 criteria, softgarden none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, HeyMilo 46 to softgarden 44. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HeyMilo 83, softgarden 22 — and at an 18% weight it carries 58% of the weighted advantage HeyMilo holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HeyMilo
HeyMilo is an AI recruiter for high-volume hiring whose voice and video AI agent conducts and scores async and live conversational screening interviews against recruiter-defined rubrics and syncs results to the customer's ATS.
Vendor profile
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.
§ The record
HeyMilo is filed under Screening AI, softgarden under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only HeyMilo is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HeyMilo | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2023 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeyMilo 83 · softgarden 22
11.0 weighted points to HeyMilo
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeyMilo 58 · softgarden 42
3.2 weighted points to HeyMilo
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeyMilo 42 · softgarden 30
1.8 weighted points to HeyMilo
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeyMilo 62 · softgarden 54
1.2 weighted points to HeyMilo
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeyMilo 64 · softgarden 58
0.7 weighted points to HeyMilo
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeyMilo 66 · softgarden 58
0.6 weighted points to HeyMilo
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeyMilo 46 · softgarden 44
0.2 weighted points to HeyMilo
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +19 beside that +18.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeyMilo minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | HeyMilo | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 22 | +61 | +11.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 46 | 44 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 42 (F) | +19 | +18.8 |
§ 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 | HeyMilo | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 18 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HeyMilo has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HeyMilo sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for HeyMilo, across 2 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeyMilo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next