§ The result
2 points separate PageUp and SmartRecruiters.
Under rubric v1.0, PageUp and SmartRecruiters finish 2 points apart, 64 to 62, as two ATS-integrated entries. SmartRecruiters takes 1 of the 7 criteria, FRIA Support among them, against 5 for PageUp, whose share includes Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. The advantage PageUp holds is spread out: Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (PageUp 55, SmartRecruiters 48, 12% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points PageUp gains across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
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
PageUp and SmartRecruiters 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 | PageUp | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 1997 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
PageUp 55 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.8 weighted points to PageUp
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
PageUp 74 · SmartRecruiters 70
0.8 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
PageUp 40 · SmartRecruiters 45
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
18% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
PageUp 80 · SmartRecruiters 78
0.4 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
PageUp 64 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.2 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
PageUp 63 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.1 weighted points to PageUp
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is PageUp minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | PageUp | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 70 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 78 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 45 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 63 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 62 (D) | +2 | +1.6 |
§ 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 | PageUp | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 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 PageUp and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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