§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Hireology by 5 points.
SmartRecruiters finishes 5 points ahead of Hireology under rubric v1.0, 62 (D) to 57 (F), both scored as ATS-integrated entries. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Hireology on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Hireology 50, SmartRecruiters 70) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 50% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Hireology
Hireology is an applicant tracking and hiring platform for multi-location auto dealers, healthcare providers and hospitality operators. Its AI features score applicants against employer-defined criteria (AI Match) and run rubric-scored, voice-based first-round screening interviews (AI Interview).
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
Hireology and SmartRecruiters are both filed 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 | Hireology | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Hireology 50 · SmartRecruiters 70
4.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Hireology 35 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Hireology 52 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Hireology 59 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.3 weighted points to Hireology
18% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Hireology 83 · SmartRecruiters 78
0.9 weighted points to Hireology
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Hireology 57 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Hireology 58 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.4 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 10.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Hireology minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Hireology | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 70 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 78 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 59 | 48 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 62 (D) | -5 | -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 | Hireology | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Hireology has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 4 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 Hireology and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for Hireology, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Hireology last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next