§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads JazzHR on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 18 points clear of JazzHR inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 62 (D) against 44 (F). SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, JazzHR none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, JazzHR 58 to SmartRecruiters 62. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — JazzHR 35, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
JazzHR
JazzHR is a small-business applicant tracking system that manages job posting, applications and hiring workflows, and layers on AI "Talent Fit" scoring that ranks candidates against a job description plus automated knockout screening questions.
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
JazzHR and SmartRecruiters are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | JazzHR | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2009 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JazzHR 35 · SmartRecruiters 78
7.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JazzHR 45 · SmartRecruiters 70
5.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
JazzHR 28 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JazzHR 52 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JazzHR 42 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JazzHR 56 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JazzHR 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 -18.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JazzHR minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | JazzHR | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 70 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 78 | -43 | -7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 45 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 48 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 63 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 62 (D) | -18 | -18.5 |
§ 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 | JazzHR | 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% | 2 | 1 | — | 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% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 17 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
JazzHR has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 7 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 JazzHR and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for JazzHR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JazzHR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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