§ The result
softgarden leads Toggl Hire by 5 points.
softgarden scores 42 and Toggl Hire 37 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Toggl Hire takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 5 for softgarden, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (softgarden 42, Toggl Hire 30) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage softgarden holds across the 5 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
Toggl Hire
Toggl Hire is a skills-first hiring platform (now being retired) that screens candidates with auto-graded skills tests, async video interviews and homework assignments, bundled with a lightweight ATS.
§ The record
softgarden is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Toggl Hire under Assessment 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 Toggl Hire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | softgarden | Toggl Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | DE | EE |
| Founded | 2001 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
softgarden 42 · Toggl Hire 30
2.4 weighted points to softgarden
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
softgarden 44 · Toggl Hire 35
1.1 weighted points to softgarden
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
softgarden 58 · Toggl Hire 52
0.7 weighted points to softgarden
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
softgarden 58 · Toggl Hire 50
0.6 weighted points to softgarden
18% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
softgarden 22 · Toggl Hire 20
0.4 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
softgarden 54 · Toggl Hire 55
0.1 weighted points to Toggl Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is softgarden minus Toggl Hire.
| Category | Weight | softgarden | Toggl Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 20 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 35 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 37 (F) | +5 | +5.0 |
§ 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 | Toggl Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 4 | 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; Toggl Hire has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains, and 14 for Toggl Hire, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Toggl Hire last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next