§ The result
1 point separates Recruiterflow and Ceipal.
Under rubric v1.0, Recruiterflow and Ceipal finish 1 point apart, 36 to 35, as two ATS-integrated entries. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Recruiterflow: Recruiterflow is ahead on Human Oversight Design and Ceipal on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Human Oversight Design, is both the widest raw gap (Ceipal 46, Recruiterflow 58) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage Recruiterflow holds across the 4 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
Recruiterflow
Recruiterflow is an ATS and CRM for recruiting agencies and executive search firms. Its AIRA AI layer ranks candidates already in a firm's database against each job with an explainable 0–100 Criteria Score (AIRA Matchmaker, shown as the 'AI Matches' card), and adds natural-language candidate search, external profile sourcing and an AI call notetaker that fills in interview scorecards.
§ The record
Ceipal and Recruiterflow 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 | Recruiterflow |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Recruiterflow 58
1.4 weighted points to Recruiterflow
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Recruiterflow 30
0.8 weighted points to Recruiterflow
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Recruiterflow 33
0.6 weighted points to Recruiterflow
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Recruiterflow 33
0.6 weighted points to Ceipal
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Recruiterflow 18
0.4 weighted points to Ceipal
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Recruiterflow 44
0.3 weighted points to Ceipal
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Recruiterflow 56
0.2 weighted points to Recruiterflow
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Recruiterflow.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Recruiterflow | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 18 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 44 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 56 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 36 (F) | -1 | -1.8 |
§ 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 | Recruiterflow | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 6 | 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; Recruiterflow has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for Recruiterflow, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruiterflow last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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