§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads JobAdder on all 7 criteria.
The ATS-integrated cohort pairing of SmartRecruiters and JobAdder comes out 62 (D) to 45 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 17-point lead for SmartRecruiters. SmartRecruiters takes all 7 criteria and JobAdder none of them; the nearest contest is Post-Market Monitoring, JobAdder 43 to SmartRecruiters 48. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — JobAdder 35, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
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
JobAdder and SmartRecruiters 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 | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · SmartRecruiters 78
7.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · SmartRecruiters 70
4.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
JobAdder 30 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JobAdder 56 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JobAdder 58 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -16.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 70 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 78 | -43 | -7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 48 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 62 (D) | -17 | -16.8 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources 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% | 5 | 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 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 11 | 2 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for JobAdder and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next