The AI in ATS evaluation checklist

Every vendor is marketing AI, but what’s actually going to make hiring better? This checklist helps you cut through the demo and evaluate what actually drives better hiring decisions – not which platform has the most features.

Feature lists are longer. Demos are flashier. And the pressure to “adopt AI” is shaping procurement decisions before anyone has asked the harder question: does this AI make hiring decisions better, or just faster and harder to explain?

An impressive output in a demo tells you little about the data behind it, whether a recruiter can challenge it or how it holds up when a candidate or regulator asks how a decision was made.

This checklist gives you the questions to ask – and the answers to listen for – so you can evaluate AI in any ATS with clarity.

Download the guide to learn:

• A clear, repeatable framework for evaluating AI in any ATS – so your team walks into every demo asking the same rigorous questions and scoring vendors against the same standard
• The questions that expose whether AI is truly embedded in your hiring workflow or just bolted on as a separate module that creates friction
• What to demand on explainability and accountability – so every AI touchpoint can be traced back to a human decision when a candidate, regulator or executive asks