§ The result
Sense leads JobAdder on all 7 criteria.
Sense sits 13 points above JobAdder under rubric v1.0 — 58 against 45 — with Sense filed under Screening and JobAdder under ATS-integrated. Sense takes all 7 criteria and JobAdder none of them; the nearest contest is Data Governance Disclosure, JobAdder 56 to Sense 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (JobAdder 35, Sense 72) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 52% of the weighted advantage Sense holds across the 7 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
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
§ The record
JobAdder is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sense under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | JobAdder | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · Sense 72
6.7 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · Sense 60
2.0 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
JobAdder 30 · Sense 38
1.2 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · Sense 64
1.2 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · Sense 52
1.1 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JobAdder 58 · Sense 62
0.3 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JobAdder 56 · Sense 58
0.3 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus Sense.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | Sense | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 72 | -37 | -6.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 64 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 52 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 58 (F) | -13 | -12.8 |
§ 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 | Sense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 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 a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 3 | Audit reportSources 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; Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for JobAdder and Sense sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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