§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Talview on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 20 points clear of Talview under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 42 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Video interview cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Talview leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (SmartRecruiters 78, Talview 38, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Talview
AI-powered hiring and exam-integrity platform spanning video interviewing, skills assessments, identity verification, and AI proctoring.
§ The record
SmartRecruiters is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Talview under Video interview 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. Only Talview is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SmartRecruiters | Talview |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · Talview 38
7.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SmartRecruiters 70 · Talview 50
4.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · Talview 25
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · Talview 48
2.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · Talview 32
1.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · Talview 52
0.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SmartRecruiters 62 · Talview 55
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +19.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus Talview.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | Talview | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 50 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 38 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 25 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 32 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 52 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 42 (F) | +20 | +19.9 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | Talview | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Talview has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 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 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Talview, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talview last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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