§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads hireEZ on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 20 points clear of hireEZ under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 42 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; hireEZ leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — hireEZ 30, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
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
hireEZ is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | hireEZ | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hireEZ 30 · SmartRecruiters 78
8.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
hireEZ 38 · SmartRecruiters 70
6.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hireEZ 25 · SmartRecruiters 45
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
hireEZ 38 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hireEZ 58 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hireEZ 58 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hireEZ 60 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -20 beside that -20.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hireEZ minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | hireEZ | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 70 | -32 | -6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 78 | -48 | -8.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 48 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 62 (D) | -20 | -20.4 |
§ 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 | hireEZ | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 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 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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