§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads TestGorilla on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 15 points clear of TestGorilla under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 47 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, TestGorilla none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, SmartRecruiters 62 to TestGorilla 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SmartRecruiters 78, TestGorilla 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% 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
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is a pre-employment skills-assessment platform offering a large test library plus AI features for resume scoring, candidate sourcing, and one-way/conversational AI video interviews to support skills-based hiring.
§ The record
SmartRecruiters is filed under ATS-integrated AI, TestGorilla under Assessment 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 TestGorilla is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SmartRecruiters | TestGorilla |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2010 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · TestGorilla 38
7.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SmartRecruiters 70 · TestGorilla 52
3.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · TestGorilla 30
2.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · TestGorilla 38
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · TestGorilla 56
0.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · TestGorilla 58
0.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SmartRecruiters 62 · TestGorilla 60
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus TestGorilla.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | TestGorilla | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 52 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 38 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 30 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 47 (F) | +15 | +15.8 |
§ 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 | TestGorilla | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 14 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; TestGorilla has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters and TestGorilla 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: 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for TestGorilla, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- TestGorilla last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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