§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Avature on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, LinkedIn Recruiter, filed under Sourcing, finishes on 57 and Avature, filed under ATS-integrated, on 48, 9 points apart. LinkedIn Recruiter takes all 7 criteria from Avature without a 20-point raw gap on any of them; the closest is Data Governance Disclosure, Avature 58 to LinkedIn Recruiter 62. The advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Avature 55, LinkedIn Recruiter 67, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 29% of the weighted points LinkedIn Recruiter gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Avature
Avature is an enterprise talent acquisition and talent management platform (recruiting CRM, ATS, onboarding and internal mobility) with built-in AI for semantic search, explainable weighted candidate matching and ranking, candidate fraud detection and configurable recruiting agents.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
§ The record
Avature is filed under ATS-integrated AI, LinkedIn Recruiter under Candidate sourcing 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.
| Record | Avature | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avature 55 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
2.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avature 40 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avature 40 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avature 32 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
0.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avature 60 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
0.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avature 60 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avature 58 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -8.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avature minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Avature | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 67 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 38 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 68 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 57 (F) | -9 | -8.3 |
§ 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 | Avature | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Avature has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Avature and LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Avature, across 3 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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