§ The result
4 points separate Vervoe and softgarden.
Vervoe holds a 4-point edge over softgarden under rubric v1.0, 46 to 42, across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Vervoe, with 1 level: Vervoe is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and softgarden on Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — softgarden 22, Vervoe 52 — and at an 18% weight it carries 85% of the weighted advantage Vervoe holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Vervoe
AI-powered skills-assessment platform that grades and ranks candidates on performance in role-specific, task-based assessments.
§ The record
softgarden is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Vervoe 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 Vervoe is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | softgarden | Vervoe |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | AU |
| Founded | 2001 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
softgarden 22 · Vervoe 52
5.4 weighted points to Vervoe
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
softgarden 44 · Vervoe 28
1.9 weighted points to softgarden
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
softgarden 30 · Vervoe 25
0.8 weighted points to softgarden
20% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
softgarden 42 · Vervoe 45
0.6 weighted points to Vervoe
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
softgarden 58 · Vervoe 60
0.2 weighted points to Vervoe
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
softgarden 54 · Vervoe 55
0.1 weighted points to Vervoe
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is softgarden minus Vervoe.
| Category | Weight | softgarden | Vervoe | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 52 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 28 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 46 (F) | -4 | -3.7 |
§ 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 | Vervoe | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 15 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Vervoe has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Vervoe, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Vervoe last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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