§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 29 points between Eightfold AI (Sourcing) and Ceipal (ATS-integrated): 64 (D) for Eightfold AI, 35 (F) for Ceipal. Eightfold AI leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Ceipal leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 20, Eightfold AI 85 — and at an 18% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI 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
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
§ The record
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Eightfold AI under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Ceipal | Eightfold AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Eightfold AI 85
11.7 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Eightfold AI 75
9.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Eightfold AI 45
3.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Eightfold AI 60
2.1 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Eightfold AI 60
1.7 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Eightfold AI 50
1.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Eightfold AI 60
0.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -29.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 29.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -29 beside that -29.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Eightfold AI.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Eightfold AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 75 | -45 | -9.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 85 | -65 | -11.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 64 (D) | -29 | -29.5 |
§ 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 | Eightfold AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Eightfold AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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