§ The result
BrightHire leads Recruit CRM on 6 of the 7 criteria.
BrightHire sits 11 points above Recruit CRM under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 40 — with BrightHire filed under Screening and Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated. BrightHire leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Recruit CRM is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 BrightHire leads is FRIA Support, BrightHire 36 to Recruit CRM 34. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (BrightHire 50, Recruit CRM 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 51% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
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
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, Recruit CRM 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 BrightHire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BrightHire | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Recruit CRM 20
5.4 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Recruit CRM 34
3.6 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Recruit CRM 54
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Recruit CRM 34
0.3 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Recruit CRM 58
0.2 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Recruit CRM 60
0.2 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +10.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +10.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 34 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 20 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 34 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 40 (F) | +11 | +10.6 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | 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% | 3 | 1 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 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 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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