§ The result
1 point separates Talkpush and JobAdder.
Talkpush (Screening) edges JobAdder (ATS-integrated) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 46 to 45. Talkpush leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while JobAdder leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing are the same criterion, Data Governance Disclosure, and JobAdder holds it (JobAdder 56, Talkpush 44, 15% weight), worth 80% of the weighted advantage JobAdder builds across the 2 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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
JobAdder is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Talkpush under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Talkpush is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | JobAdder | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | HK |
| Founded | 2007 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JobAdder 56 · Talkpush 44
1.8 weighted points to JobAdder
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · Talkpush 42
1.3 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
JobAdder 30 · Talkpush 27
0.4 weighted points to JobAdder
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · Talkpush 52
0.4 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · Talkpush 46
0.4 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · Talkpush 56
0.2 weighted points to Talkpush
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JobAdder 58 · Talkpush 60
0.2 weighted points to Talkpush
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 42 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 44 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 56 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 46 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 46 (F) | -1 | -0.2 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 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 | 21 | 7 | 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for JobAdder and Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next