§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Vincere on all 7 criteria.
The ATS-integrated cohort pairing of SmartRecruiters and Vincere comes out 62 (D) to 44 (F) under rubric v1.0, an 18-point lead for SmartRecruiters. Of the 7 criteria Vincere wins none, and the narrowest lead SmartRecruiters holds is on Customer Documentation, SmartRecruiters 63 to Vincere 60. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (SmartRecruiters 78, Vincere 18) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 60% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
Vincere
Access Vincere Evo is a recruitment-agency CRM and ATS from The Access Group whose Copilot AI scores candidates against a job on a 1-5 star scale, ranks the closest matches from the agency database, and generates job ads, candidate summaries and screening chatbots.
§ The record
SmartRecruiters and Vincere are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | SmartRecruiters | Vincere |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2010 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · Vincere 18
10.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SmartRecruiters 70 · Vincere 55
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · Vincere 38
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · Vincere 55
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · Vincere 40
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SmartRecruiters 62 · Vincere 55
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · Vincere 60
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.9 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 +17.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus Vincere.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | Vincere | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 55 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 18 | +60 | +10.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 44 (F) | +18 | +17.9 |
§ 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 | Vincere | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 27 | 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; Vincere has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters and Vincere sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Vincere, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Vincere last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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