§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads X0PA AI on all 7 criteria.
SmartRecruiters sits 14 points above X0PA AI under rubric v1.0 — 62 (D) against 48 (F) — with SmartRecruiters filed under ATS-integrated and X0PA AI under Assessment. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, X0PA AI none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, SmartRecruiters 63 to X0PA AI 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SmartRecruiters 78, X0PA AI 44 — and at an 18% weight it carries 44% 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
X0PA AI
X0PA AI is a Singapore-based B2B AI recruitment platform (applicant tracking system) that sources, screens, scores, and ranks candidates using proprietary predictive-scoring models (BRIQ Score and Suitability Score) plus the X0PA ROOM video-interview/assessment product, marketed around bias-reduced, "responsible and explainable" AI hiring.
§ The record
SmartRecruiters is filed under ATS-integrated AI, X0PA AI under Assessment 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. Only X0PA AI is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | SmartRecruiters | X0PA AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2010 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · X0PA AI 44
6.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
SmartRecruiters 70 · X0PA AI 50
4.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · X0PA AI 38
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · X0PA AI 40
1.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · X0PA AI 56
0.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SmartRecruiters 62 · X0PA AI 57
0.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · X0PA AI 60
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus X0PA AI.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | X0PA AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 50 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 44 | +34 | +6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 48 (F) | +14 | +13.9 |
§ 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 | X0PA AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; X0PA AI has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters and X0PA AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for X0PA AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- X0PA AI last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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