§ The result
JobAdder leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
JobAdder sits 11 points above Zappyhire under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 34 — with JobAdder filed under ATS-integrated and Zappyhire under Screening. JobAdder leads every one of the 7 criteria, Zappyhire none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, JobAdder 54 to Zappyhire 50. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (JobAdder 50, Zappyhire 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 35% of the weighted advantage JobAdder 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
JobAdder is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | JobAdder | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | IN |
| Founded | 2007 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · Zappyhire 30
4.0 weighted points to JobAdder
15% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JobAdder 56 · Zappyhire 42
2.1 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · Zappyhire 28
1.8 weighted points to JobAdder
18% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · Zappyhire 28
1.3 weighted points to JobAdder
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JobAdder 58 · Zappyhire 45
1.0 weighted points to JobAdder
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
JobAdder 30 · Zappyhire 25
0.8 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · Zappyhire 50
0.5 weighted points to JobAdder
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +11.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 42 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 28 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 34 (F) | +11 | +11.4 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | 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 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for JobAdder and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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