§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Breezy HR on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter, filed under Sourcing, comes out 14 points above Breezy HR, filed under ATS-integrated: 57 against 43 under rubric v1.0. LinkedIn Recruiter leads every one of the 7 criteria, Breezy HR none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Breezy HR 55 to LinkedIn Recruiter 62. The advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Breezy HR 25, LinkedIn Recruiter 50, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 33% of the weighted points LinkedIn Recruiter gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Breezy HR
Breezy HR is an SMB-focused applicant tracking system with a drag-and-drop hiring pipeline, multi-board job distribution, scorecards and interview scheduling, plus a credit-metered AI add-on ("Breezy Intelligence") that scores and ranks applicants against job requirements, audits resumes for AI-generated content, and summarizes candidate activity.
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
Breezy HR 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 | Breezy HR | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Breezy HR 25 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
4.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Breezy HR 50 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
3.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Breezy HR 38 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Breezy HR 55 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Breezy HR 30 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Breezy HR 55 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
1.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Breezy HR 58 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
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 -14 beside that -13.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Breezy HR minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Breezy HR | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 67 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 50 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 66 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 68 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 57 (F) | -14 | -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 | Breezy HR | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 9 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Breezy HR has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 9 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 Breezy HR and LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Breezy HR, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Breezy HR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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