§ The result
softgarden leads HireLogic on 6 of the 7 criteria.
softgarden scores 42 and HireLogic 34 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Video interview cohorts. softgarden leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so HireLogic is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 softgarden leads is FRIA Support, HireLogic 25 to softgarden 30. Even Post-Market Monitoring, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HireLogic 28, softgarden 44, 12% weight), is only 26% of the weighted advantage softgarden builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HireLogic
HireLogic joins phone, video and in-person interviews to transcribe them and generate AI notes, job-description coverage, candidate insights and flags for potentially discriminatory interviewer questions, and also offers an asynchronous AI interview agent that scores candidates on relevance and depth of knowledge.
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
HireLogic is filed under Video interview AI, softgarden under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only HireLogic is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireLogic | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireLogic 28 · softgarden 44
1.9 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireLogic 45 · softgarden 54
1.3 weighted points to softgarden
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireLogic 15 · softgarden 22
1.3 weighted points to softgarden
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireLogic 48 · softgarden 58
1.2 weighted points to softgarden
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireLogic 45 · softgarden 58
1.0 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireLogic 25 · softgarden 30
0.8 weighted points to softgarden
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -7.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireLogic minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | HireLogic | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 22 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 44 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 42 (F) | -8 | -7.5 |
§ 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 | HireLogic | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HireLogic has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireLogic, across 1 distinct source domain, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireLogic last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next