§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) and HireQuotient (Sourcing) are 28 points apart under rubric v1.0, 62 (D) for SmartRecruiters against 34 (F) for HireQuotient. HireQuotient leads none of the 7 criteria, and SmartRecruiters is ahead on 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. The advantage SmartRecruiters holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HireQuotient 18, SmartRecruiters 78, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 38% of the weighted points SmartRecruiters gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
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
HireQuotient 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. Only HireQuotient is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HireQuotient | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HireQuotient 18 · SmartRecruiters 78
10.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HireQuotient 35 · SmartRecruiters 70
7.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HireQuotient 22 · SmartRecruiters 45
3.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HireQuotient 40 · SmartRecruiters 62
3.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HireQuotient 30 · SmartRecruiters 48
2.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HireQuotient 50 · SmartRecruiters 63
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HireQuotient 57 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -28.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 28.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -28 beside that -28.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HireQuotient minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | HireQuotient | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 70 | -35 | -7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 78 | -60 | -10.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 22 | 45 | -23 | -3.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 48 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 63 | -13 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 34 (F) | 62 (D) | -28 | -28.3 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 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% | 24 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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