§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Knockri on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) opens a 15-point lead on Knockri (Video interview), 62 (D) to 47 (F). SmartRecruiters takes all 7 criteria and Knockri none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Knockri 60 to SmartRecruiters 62. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Knockri 35, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Knockri
Knockri runs asynchronous structured behavioural interviews that candidates answer by audio, video or text; it transcribes the answers, uses NLP models to score the work-related behaviours they describe against a skills framework, and produces per-skill scores and ranked shortlists.
Vendor profile
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Knockri is filed under Video interview AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Knockri is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Knockri | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Knockri 35 · SmartRecruiters 78
7.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Knockri 55 · SmartRecruiters 70
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Knockri 35 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Knockri 35 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Knockri 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Knockri 55 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Knockri 60 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -15.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Knockri minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Knockri | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 70 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 78 | -43 | -7.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 48 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 47 (F) | 62 (D) | -15 | -15.7 |
§ 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 | Knockri | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Knockri has 41 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Knockri and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 41 for Knockri, across 7 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Knockri last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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