§ The result
Jobylon leads softgarden on all 7 criteria.
Inside the ATS-integrated cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Jobylon on 48 and softgarden on 42, 6 points apart. Jobylon takes all 7 criteria from softgarden without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Post-Market Monitoring, Jobylon 45 to softgarden 44. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Jobylon 55, softgarden 42 — and at a 20% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Jobylon holds across the 7 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
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
Jobylon and softgarden are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Jobylon | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | DE |
| Founded | 2011 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Jobylon 55 · softgarden 42
2.6 weighted points to Jobylon
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Jobylon 28 · softgarden 22
1.1 weighted points to Jobylon
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Jobylon 36 · softgarden 30
0.9 weighted points to Jobylon
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Jobylon 58 · softgarden 54
0.6 weighted points to Jobylon
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Jobylon 60 · softgarden 58
0.2 weighted points to Jobylon
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Jobylon 60 · softgarden 58
0.2 weighted points to Jobylon
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Jobylon 45 · softgarden 44
0.1 weighted points to Jobylon
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Jobylon minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | Jobylon | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 22 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 44 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 42 (F) | +6 | +5.7 |
§ 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 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Jobylon has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 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 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Jobylon, across 1 distinct source domain, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Jobylon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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