§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads isolved on all 7 criteria.
The ATS-integrated cohort pairing of SmartRecruiters and isolved comes out 62 (D) to 47 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 15-point lead for SmartRecruiters. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, isolved none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, isolved 47 to SmartRecruiters 48. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (isolved 45, SmartRecruiters 78, 18% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
isolved
isolved is a US HCM and payroll provider whose isolved Talent Acquisition applicant tracking system (formerly ApplicantPro) uses AI Candidate Matching to score each applicant's resume against the job description and sort the applicant list, alongside AI job-ad writing and WedgeHR-powered one-way video interviews.
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
isolved 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 | isolved | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1986 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
isolved 45 · SmartRecruiters 78
5.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
isolved 50 · SmartRecruiters 70
4.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
isolved 30 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
isolved 53 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
isolved 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
isolved 56 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
isolved 47 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is isolved minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | isolved | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 70 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 45 | 78 | -33 | -5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 62 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 48 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 63 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 62 (D) | -15 | -15.1 |
§ 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 | isolved | 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% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 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 |
isolved has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 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 isolved and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for isolved, across 4 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- isolved last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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