§ The result
JobAdder leads Personio by 5 points.
JobAdder finishes 5 points ahead of Personio under rubric v1.0, 45 to 40, both scored as ATS-integrated entries. JobAdder leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Personio leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (JobAdder 50, Personio 40, 20% weight), is only 35% of the weighted advantage JobAdder builds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
JobAdder
JobAdder is a Sydney-based ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and in-house teams whose Adder Intelligence layer, launched in November 2025 on LLMs hosted in Amazon Bedrock, gives every applicant an AI summary and relevancy rating and also drafts client-ready candidate overviews (Smart Floats), suggests skill codes, proposes record updates and writes job ads, alongside database skill matching.
Vendor profile
Personio
Personio is a European cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized companies that combines an HRIS with recruiting/ATS, time tracking, payroll and an AI assistant, and is adding agentic AI candidate sourcing and application screening through its 2026 acquisition of aurio.
§ The record
JobAdder and Personio are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Sourcing and Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | JobAdder | Personio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | DE |
| Founded | 2007 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · Personio 40
2.0 weighted points to JobAdder
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · Personio 25
1.8 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · Personio 48
0.7 weighted points to JobAdder
8% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JobAdder 58 · Personio 50
0.6 weighted points to JobAdder
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JobAdder 56 · Personio 52
0.6 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · Personio 48
0.6 weighted points to Personio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus Personio.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | Personio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 48 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 48 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 40 (F) | +5 | +5.2 |
§ 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 | JobAdder | Personio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Personio has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for JobAdder and Personio 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: 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Personio, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Personio last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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