§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Pillar on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 22 points clear of Pillar under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 40 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, Pillar none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, Pillar 50 to SmartRecruiters 63. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Pillar 38, SmartRecruiters 78, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
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
Pillar is filed under Screening AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Pillar is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pillar | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pillar 38 · SmartRecruiters 78
7.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pillar 42 · SmartRecruiters 70
5.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pillar 45 · SmartRecruiters 62
2.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pillar 30 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pillar 33 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pillar 48 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pillar 50 · SmartRecruiters 63
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
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 Pillar minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Pillar | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 70 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 78 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 48 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 63 | -13 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 62 (D) | -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 | Pillar | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 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 SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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