§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads UKG on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 18 points clear of UKG inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 62 (D) against 44 (F). SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, UKG none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, SmartRecruiters 62 to UKG 56. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SmartRecruiters 78, UKG 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 47% 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
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
§ The record
SmartRecruiters and UKG are both filed under ATS-integrated 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.
| Record | SmartRecruiters | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · UKG 30
8.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SmartRecruiters 70 · UKG 48
4.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · UKG 35
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SmartRecruiters 62 · UKG 52
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · UKG 38
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · UKG 56
0.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · UKG 55
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus UKG.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 48 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 30 | +48 | +8.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 38 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 44 (F) | +18 | +18.5 |
§ 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 | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0 | 2 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 1 | 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 | 6 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 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 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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