§ The result
Jobylon leads Personio by 8 points.
Jobylon scores 48 and Personio 40 under rubric v1.0 — an 8-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Jobylon: Jobylon is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Personio on Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Jobylon 55, Personio 40 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Jobylon holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Jobylon
Jobylon is a Stockholm-based applicant tracking system and talent CRM for enterprise employers whose optional AI features score each applicant's CV against the job description, suggest existing candidates for other open roles, draft job ads and screening questions, and run candidate screening and interview scheduling over WhatsApp, SMS and email.
Vendor profile
Personio
Personio is a European cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized companies that combines an HRIS with recruiting/ATS, time tracking, payroll and an AI assistant, and is adding agentic AI candidate sourcing and application screening through its 2026 acquisition of aurio.
§ The record
Jobylon and Personio are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Jobylon | Personio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | DE |
| Founded | 2011 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Jobylon 55 · Personio 40
3.0 weighted points to Jobylon
12% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Jobylon 60 · Personio 48
1.4 weighted points to Jobylon
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Jobylon 36 · Personio 30
0.9 weighted points to Jobylon
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Jobylon 58 · Personio 52
0.9 weighted points to Jobylon
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Jobylon 60 · Personio 50
0.8 weighted points to Jobylon
18% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Jobylon 28 · Personio 25
0.5 weighted points to Jobylon
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Jobylon 45 · Personio 48
0.4 weighted points to Personio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jobylon minus Personio.
| Category | Weight | Jobylon | Personio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 48 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 48 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 40 (F) | +8 | +7.2 |
§ 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 | Jobylon | Personio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Jobylon has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Personio has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Personio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Jobylon, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Personio, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Jobylon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Personio last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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