§ The result
SmartRecruiters takes the total, Pinpoint takes more of the criteria.
SmartRecruiters scores 62 (D) and Pinpoint 57 (F) under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Pinpoint leads more of the criteria than SmartRecruiters — 5 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which SmartRecruiters leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to SmartRecruiters. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Pinpoint 42, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 86% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
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
Pinpoint and SmartRecruiters are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Pinpoint | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | JE | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pinpoint 42 · SmartRecruiters 78
6.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pinpoint 38 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pinpoint 68 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.9 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pinpoint 52 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.5 weighted points to Pinpoint
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pinpoint 72 · SmartRecruiters 70
0.4 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pinpoint 64 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.2 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pinpoint 66 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.2 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pinpoint minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Pinpoint | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 70 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 78 | -36 | -6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 63 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 62 (D) | -5 | -5.3 |
§ 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 | Pinpoint | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 2 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 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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