§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Cangrade on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter sits 12 points above Cangrade under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 45 — with LinkedIn Recruiter filed under Sourcing and Cangrade under Assessment. LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead of Cangrade on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Customer Documentation at Cangrade 62 to LinkedIn Recruiter 68. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (Cangrade 32, LinkedIn Recruiter 50) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Cangrade 52, LinkedIn Recruiter 67), 25% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
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
Cangrade is filed under Assessment AI, LinkedIn Recruiter under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Cangrade is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cangrade | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cangrade 52 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
3.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cangrade 35 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
2.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cangrade 32 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
2.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cangrade 30 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cangrade 54 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cangrade 56 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cangrade 62 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cangrade minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Cangrade | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 67 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 66 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 50 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 68 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 57 (F) | -12 | -11.9 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 3 | — | 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 domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 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% | 20 | 10 | 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 |
Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 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 Cangrade and LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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