§ The result
Criteria leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Criteria finishes 18 points clear of Ceipal under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 35 — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Criteria leads every one of the 7 criteria, Ceipal none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Ceipal 38 to Criteria 42. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 30, Criteria 68 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
§ The record
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Criteria under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Criteria is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ceipal | Criteria |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2006 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Criteria 68
7.6 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Criteria 48
5.0 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Criteria 62
2.4 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Criteria 56
1.2 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Criteria 32
1.1 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Criteria 60
0.6 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Criteria 42
0.5 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Criteria.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Criteria | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 68 | -38 | -7.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 48 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 56 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 53 (F) | -18 | -18.3 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | Criteria | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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