§ The result
Apriora (Alex) leads RecruitBot on all 7 criteria.
Apriora (Alex) finishes 20 points clear of RecruitBot under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 37 — across the Video interview and Sourcing cohorts. Apriora (Alex) leads every one of the 7 criteria, RecruitBot none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Apriora (Alex) 54 to RecruitBot 48. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Apriora (Alex) 83, RecruitBot 22) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 55% of the weighted advantage Apriora (Alex) holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Apriora (Alex)
Apriora's product "Alex" is an agentic AI recruiter whose live voice/video interviewer conducts real-time conversational interviews with candidates, asks dynamic follow-ups, and returns role-fit scores, transcripts, and fraud flags to the hiring team.
Vendor profile
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
§ The record
Apriora (Alex) is filed under Video interview AI, RecruitBot under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Apriora (Alex) is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Apriora (Alex) | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Apriora (Alex) 83 · RecruitBot 22
11.0 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 52 · RecruitBot 33
3.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Apriora (Alex) 38 · RecruitBot 27
1.6 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Apriora (Alex) 60 · RecruitBot 50
1.2 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Apriora (Alex) 54 · RecruitBot 48
0.9 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Apriora (Alex) 47 · RecruitBot 40
0.8 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Apriora (Alex) 62 · RecruitBot 55
0.6 weighted points to Apriora (Alex)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +19.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Apriora (Alex) minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | Apriora (Alex) | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 33 | +19 | +3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 22 | +61 | +11.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 27 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 48 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 40 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 37 (F) | +20 | +19.9 |
§ 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 | Apriora (Alex) | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Apriora (Alex) has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Apriora (Alex) and RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Apriora (Alex), across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Apriora (Alex) last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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