§ The result
HiredScore leads JobAdder by 7 points.
HiredScore scores 52 and JobAdder 45 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. JobAdder takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 4 for HiredScore, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HiredScore 55, JobAdder 35) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
Vendor profile
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
§ The record
HiredScore is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, JobAdder under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only JobAdder is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | HiredScore | JobAdder |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2012 | 2007 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · JobAdder 35
3.6 weighted points to HiredScore
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · JobAdder 50
3.0 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · JobAdder 43
1.0 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · JobAdder 54
0.7 weighted points to HiredScore
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · JobAdder 58
0.2 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · JobAdder 56
0.1 weighted points to JobAdder
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +6.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus JobAdder.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | JobAdder | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 50 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 35 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 43 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 45 (F) | +7 | +6.4 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | JobAdder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore and JobAdder sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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