§ The result
3 points separate JobAdder and Zoho Recruit.
Under rubric v1.0, JobAdder and Zoho Recruit finish 3 points apart, 45 to 42, as two ATS-integrated entries. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of JobAdder, with 1 level: JobAdder is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Zoho Recruit on Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — JobAdder 35, Zoho Recruit 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage JobAdder holds across the 5 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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
JobAdder and Zoho Recruit 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. Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | JobAdder | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | AU | IN |
| Founded | 2007 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
JobAdder 35 · Zoho Recruit 24
2.0 weighted points to JobAdder
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
JobAdder 50 · Zoho Recruit 45
1.0 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
JobAdder 54 · Zoho Recruit 50
0.5 weighted points to JobAdder
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
JobAdder 43 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.4 weighted points to JobAdder
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
JobAdder 58 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.2 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
JobAdder 56 · Zoho Recruit 55
0.1 weighted points to JobAdder
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is JobAdder minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | JobAdder | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 24 | +11 | +2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 43 | 40 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 42 (F) | +3 | +3.8 |
§ 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 | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
JobAdder has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for JobAdder sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 29 for JobAdder, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- JobAdder last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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