§ The result
Recruit CRM leads Ceipal on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Recruit CRM scores 40 and Ceipal 35 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Recruit CRM leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Ceipal is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Recruit CRM leads is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Ceipal 30 to Recruit CRM 34. The advantage Recruit CRM holds is spread out: Human Oversight Design is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Ceipal 46, Recruit CRM 58, 12% weight), yet it supplies only 25% of the weighted points Recruit CRM gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Ceipal and Recruit CRM are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Ceipal | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Recruit CRM 58
1.4 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 48% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Recruit CRM 34
1.3 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Recruit CRM 54
1.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Recruit CRM 34
0.8 weighted points to Recruit CRM
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Recruit CRM 60
0.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Recruit CRM 42
0.5 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 34 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 20 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 34 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 54 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 40 (F) | -5 | -5.8 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | Sources 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; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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