§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Willo on 6 of the 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters finishes 21 points clear of Willo under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 41 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Video interview cohorts. SmartRecruiters leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Willo is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 SmartRecruiters leads is Data Governance Disclosure, SmartRecruiters 62 to Willo 53. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SmartRecruiters 78, Willo 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 6 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
Willo
Willo is a browser-based asynchronous (one-way) video interview platform that lets employers collect recorded video, audio, multiple-choice and written candidate responses, then uses AI to transcribe, summarize, rank candidates against employer-defined "Blueprint" criteria, and flag scripted or AI-generated answers.
§ The record
SmartRecruiters is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Willo 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 Willo is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SmartRecruiters | Willo |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2010 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · Willo 30
8.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SmartRecruiters 70 · Willo 38
6.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · Willo 25
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · Willo 36
1.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · Willo 53
1.3 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · Willo 54
0.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +21.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +21.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus Willo.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | Willo | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 38 | +32 | +6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 30 | +48 | +8.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 25 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 53 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 36 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 54 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 41 (F) | +21 | +21.6 |
§ 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 | Willo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 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 | 9 | 5 | 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; Willo has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 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 Willo, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Willo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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