§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Humanly on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 20 points clear of Humanly under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 42 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Humanly leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Humanly 40, SmartRecruiters 78, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Humanly
Conversational AI for high-volume recruiting that engages, screens, and schedules candidates across chat, SMS, email, voice, and video, with structured AI interviews and automated scoring.
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
Humanly is filed under Screening AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Humanly is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Humanly | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Humanly 40 · SmartRecruiters 78
6.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Humanly 45 · SmartRecruiters 70
5.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Humanly 40 · SmartRecruiters 62
3.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Humanly 30 · SmartRecruiters 48
2.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Humanly 35 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Humanly 52 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Humanly 58 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.2 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 -20.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Humanly minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Humanly | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 70 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 78 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 48 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 52 | 63 | -11 | -0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 62 (D) | -20 | -20.2 |
§ 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 | Humanly | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 12 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Humanly has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 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 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Humanly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Humanly last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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