§ The result
Jobma leads softgarden on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Jobma, filed under Video interview, finishes on 49 and softgarden, filed under ATS-integrated, on 42, 7 points apart. softgarden is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Jobma takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Data Governance Disclosure, Jobma 56 to softgarden 54. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Jobma 40, softgarden 22 — and at an 18% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Jobma holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Jobma
AI video interviewing platform offering one-way (pre-recorded), live, and agentic AI interviews with automated transcription and AI scoring of candidate video, audio, and written responses as recruiter decision-support.
Vendor profile
softgarden
softgarden is a German cloud applicant tracking system (multiposting, career sites, applicant management and onboarding) with optional AI features: AI-Assisted Applicant Matching, which highlights applicants who closely match a job's requirements, and a newer LLM-based Screening Assistant, which scores each applicant against screening criteria.
§ The record
Jobma is filed under Video interview AI, softgarden under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Jobma is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Jobma | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2012 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Jobma 40 · softgarden 22
3.2 weighted points to Jobma
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Jobma 55 · softgarden 42
2.6 weighted points to Jobma
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Jobma 35 · softgarden 30
0.8 weighted points to Jobma
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Jobma 62 · softgarden 58
0.3 weighted points to Jobma
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Jobma 56 · softgarden 54
0.3 weighted points to Jobma
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Jobma 60 · softgarden 58
0.2 weighted points to Jobma
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +7.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jobma minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | Jobma | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 22 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 54 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 44 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 42 (F) | +7 | +7.5 |
§ 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 | Jobma | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 17 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Jobma has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Jobma, across 1 distinct source domain, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Jobma last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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