§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads iMocha by 6 points.
SmartRecruiters scores 62 (D) and iMocha 56 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. iMocha and SmartRecruiters each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split SmartRecruiters holds (headed by Bias Audit Transparency) adds up to more weighted points. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — iMocha 44, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 81% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
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
iMocha is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only iMocha is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | iMocha | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
iMocha 44 · SmartRecruiters 78
6.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
iMocha 38 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
iMocha 66 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.6 weighted points to iMocha
20% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
iMocha 68 · SmartRecruiters 70
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
iMocha 64 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.2 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
iMocha 66 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.2 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is iMocha minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | iMocha | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 70 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 44 | 78 | -34 | -6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 48 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 63 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 62 (D) | -6 | -6.5 |
§ 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 | iMocha | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources 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% | 21 | 5 | 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 |
iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 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 iMocha and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next