§ The result
softgarden and Talview tie at 42.
softgarden (ATS-integrated) and Talview (Video interview) tie at 42 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. softgarden leads 5 of the 7 criteria and Talview 2, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (softgarden 22, Talview 38) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 64% of the weighted advantage Talview holds across the 2 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
softgarden
softgarden is a German cloud applicant tracking system (multiposting, career sites, applicant management and onboarding) with optional AI features: AI-Assisted Applicant Matching, which highlights applicants who closely match a job's requirements, and a newer LLM-based Screening Assistant, which scores each applicant against screening criteria.
Vendor profile
Talview
AI-powered hiring and exam-integrity platform spanning video interviewing, skills assessments, identity verification, and AI proctoring.
§ The record
softgarden is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Talview 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 Talview is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | softgarden | Talview |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2001 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
softgarden 22 · Talview 38
2.9 weighted points to Talview
20% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
softgarden 42 · Talview 50
1.6 weighted points to Talview
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
softgarden 44 · Talview 32
1.4 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
softgarden 54 · Talview 48
0.9 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
softgarden 30 · Talview 25
0.8 weighted points to softgarden
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
softgarden 58 · Talview 52
0.5 weighted points to softgarden
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
softgarden 58 · Talview 55
0.4 weighted points to softgarden
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is softgarden minus Talview.
| Category | Weight | softgarden | Talview | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 38 | -16 | -2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 48 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 32 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 42 (F) | - | -0.6 |
§ 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 | softgarden | Talview | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Talview has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Talview, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talview last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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