§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, LinkedIn Recruiter (Sourcing) opens a 22-point lead on Ceipal (ATS-integrated), 57 to 35. Ceipal leads none of the 7 criteria, and LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Ceipal 30, LinkedIn Recruiter 67, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter 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
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
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, LinkedIn Recruiter 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. Only LinkedIn Recruiter is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ceipal | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
7.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
5.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
2.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
2.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -22.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -22 beside that -22.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 67 | -37 | -7.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 50 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 66 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 68 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 57 (F) | -22 | -22.2 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 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% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 34 | 5 | 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; 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 LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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