§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Pymetrics (Harver Games) by 6 points.
SmartRecruiters scores 62 (D) and Pymetrics (Harver Games) 56 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. FRIA Support is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Pymetrics (Harver Games) 25, SmartRecruiters 45 — and at a 15% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Behavioral assessment using browser-based "games" that infer cognitive and emotional traits. Acquired by Harver in 2022 and folded into the Harver Games product line.
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
Pymetrics (Harver Games) is filed under Assessment AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Pymetrics (Harver Games) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 41% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 25 · SmartRecruiters 45
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 35 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 50 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 55 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
18% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80 · SmartRecruiters 78
0.4 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pymetrics (Harver Games) 60 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pymetrics (Harver Games) minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 70 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 80 | 78 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 48 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 63 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 62 (D) | -6 | -6.6 |
§ 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 | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 2 | 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 |
Pymetrics (Harver Games) has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 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 Pymetrics (Harver Games) and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 24 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Pymetrics (Harver Games), across 3 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pymetrics (Harver Games) last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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