§ The result
Ashby leads Recruit CRM on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Ashby finishes 16 points clear of Recruit CRM inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 56 against 40. Recruit CRM is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Ashby takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Customer Documentation, Ashby 63 to Recruit CRM 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ashby 62, Recruit CRM 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage Ashby holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform combining applicant tracking, CRM/sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, with embedded AI features including resume-to-criteria evaluation, AI-assisted application review, sourcing outreach, and scheduling agents.
Vendor profile
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Ashby and Recruit CRM are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Ashby is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ashby | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ashby 62 · Recruit CRM 20
7.6 weighted points to Ashby
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ashby 63 · Recruit CRM 34
5.8 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ashby 42 · Recruit CRM 34
1.2 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ashby 58 · Recruit CRM 54
0.6 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ashby 62 · Recruit CRM 58
0.5 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ashby 63 · Recruit CRM 60
0.2 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 34 | +29 | +5.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 20 | +42 | +7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 34 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 40 (F) | +16 | +15.9 |
§ 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 | Ashby | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 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 domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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