§ The result
ADP leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
ADP sits 13 points above Ceipal under rubric v1.0, 48 against 35, with both filed under ATS-integrated. ADP leads every one of the 7 criteria, Ceipal none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, ADP 28 to Ceipal 25. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (ADP 46, Ceipal 20, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage ADP holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
§ The record
ADP and Ceipal are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only ADP is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ADP | Ceipal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1949 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · Ceipal 20
4.7 weighted points to ADP
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · Ceipal 30
4.6 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · Ceipal 46
1.6 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · Ceipal 46
1.1 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · Ceipal 38
0.8 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · Ceipal 25
0.4 weighted points to ADP
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · Ceipal 53
0.4 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Ceipal.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Ceipal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 30 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 20 | +26 | +4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 46 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 46 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 53 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 35 (F) | +13 | +13.7 |
§ 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 | ADP | Ceipal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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