§ The result
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting finishes 18 points clear of Ceipal inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 53 against 35. SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads every one of the 7 criteria, Ceipal none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Ceipal 38 to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 30, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 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
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is the recruiting module of SAP's cloud HCM suite, using AI (career-site skills matching, job-description generation, resume skills extraction and stack-ranking of applicants) delivered under SAP Business AI and the Joule assistant.
§ The record
Ceipal and SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 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. Only SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ceipal | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2015 | 1972 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70
8.0 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
3.6 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 60
2.1 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
1.9 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 35
1.5 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
0.7 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
0.2 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.1 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 -18.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 70 | -40 | -8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 40 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 62 | -9 | -0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 53 (F) | -18 | -18.1 |
§ 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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 17 | 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; SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 22 for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next