Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Recruitee vs softgarden
Recruitee
Collaborative applicant tracking system, part of the Tellent group, with AI-assisted features for job-description generation, screening candidates against team-defined criteria, resurfacing past applicants, and summarizing evaluation feedback.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
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.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Recruitee and softgarden tie at 42.
Recruitee and softgarden tie at 42 under rubric v1.0 inside the ATS-integrated cohort, arriving there from different criteria. Recruitee leads 1 of the 7 criteria and softgarden 3, with 3 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Recruitee 30, softgarden 22) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 100% of the weighted advantage Recruitee holds across the 1 criterion it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Recruitee1
- softgarden3
- Level3
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency30 vs 22
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Recruitee and softgarden are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Recruitee | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | DE |
| Founded | 2015 | 2001 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight54% of the movement so far
Recruitee30softgarden221.4 weighted points to Recruitee
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight72% of the movement so far
Recruitee40softgarden440.5 weighted points to softgarden
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight89% of the movement so far
Recruitee27softgarden300.4 weighted points to softgarden
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Recruitee52softgarden540.3 weighted points to softgarden
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +0.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.2.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitee minus softgarden, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Recruitee | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 30 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 54 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 44 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 42F | 42F | - | +0.2 |
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 | Recruitee | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Recruitee has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Recruitee, across 1 distinct source domain, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitee last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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