§ The result
3 points separate Zoho Recruit and Canditech.
Zoho Recruit (ATS-integrated) edges Canditech (Assessment) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 42 to 39. Zoho Recruit leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Canditech leads 2, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Canditech 37, Zoho Recruit 45 — and at a 20% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage Zoho Recruit holds across the 4 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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Canditech is filed under Assessment AI, Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Canditech | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | IL | IN |
| Founded | 2019 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Canditech 37 · Zoho Recruit 45
1.6 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Canditech 32 · Zoho Recruit 40
1.0 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Canditech 52 · Zoho Recruit 55
0.4 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Canditech 53 · Zoho Recruit 50
0.4 weighted points to Canditech
18% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Canditech 25 · Zoho Recruit 24
0.2 weighted points to Canditech
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Canditech 58 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.2 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -2.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Canditech minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Canditech | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 37 | 45 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 24 | +1 | +0.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 50 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 42 (F) | -3 | -2.6 |
§ 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 | Canditech | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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