§ The result
1 point separates Recruit CRM and Canditech.
Recruit CRM holds a 1-point edge over Canditech under rubric v1.0, 40 to 39, across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Recruit CRM: Recruit CRM is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Canditech on Bias Audit Transparency. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Canditech 32, Recruit CRM 42 — and at a 12% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Recruit CRM holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Canditech
Canditech is a skills-assessment and job-simulation platform that screens candidates with work-sample tests, technical and soft-skill assessments, and one-way video interviews, using AI agents to auto-score open-text and video responses.
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
Canditech is filed under Assessment AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Canditech is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Canditech | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | IL | US |
| Founded | 2019 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Canditech 32 · Recruit CRM 42
1.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Canditech 25 · Recruit CRM 20
0.9 weighted points to Canditech
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Canditech 37 · Recruit CRM 34
0.6 weighted points to Canditech
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Canditech 30 · Recruit CRM 34
0.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Canditech 53 · Recruit CRM 58
0.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Canditech 52 · Recruit CRM 54
0.3 weighted points to Recruit CRM
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Canditech 58 · Recruit CRM 60
0.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Canditech minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Canditech | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 37 | 34 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 34 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 54 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 58 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 42 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 40 (F) | -1 | -1.4 |
§ 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 | Canditech | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 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% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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