§ The result
PageUp leads softgarden on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, PageUp opens a 22-point lead on softgarden, 64 (D) to 42 (F), with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. Of the 7 criteria softgarden wins none, and the narrowest lead PageUp holds is on Customer Documentation, PageUp 63 to softgarden 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (PageUp 80, softgarden 22) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 47% of the weighted advantage PageUp holds across the 7 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
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
PageUp 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 | PageUp | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | DE |
| Founded | 1997 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
PageUp 80 · softgarden 22
10.4 weighted points to PageUp
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
PageUp 74 · softgarden 42
6.4 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
PageUp 40 · softgarden 30
1.5 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
PageUp 63 · softgarden 54
1.3 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
PageUp 55 · softgarden 44
1.3 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
PageUp 64 · softgarden 58
0.7 weighted points to PageUp
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
PageUp 63 · softgarden 58
0.4 weighted points to PageUp
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +22.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +22 beside that +22.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is PageUp minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | PageUp | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 42 | +32 | +6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 22 | +58 | +10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 54 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 44 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 42 (F) | +22 | +22.1 |
§ 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 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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; some documentation or audit rows for PageUp sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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