§ The result
Sense leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Sense finishes 23 points clear of Ceipal under rubric v1.0 — 58 against 35 — across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Sense leads every one of the 7 criteria, Ceipal none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, Ceipal 53 to Sense 62. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 20, Sense 72 — and at an 18% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Sense 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
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
§ The record
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sense under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Sense is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ceipal | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| 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 · Sense 72
9.4 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Sense 60
6.0 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Sense 64
2.2 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Sense 38
1.9 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Sense 58
1.8 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Sense 52
1.7 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Sense 62
0.7 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -23.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 23.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -23 beside that -23.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Sense.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Sense | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 72 | -52 | -9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 64 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 52 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 62 | -9 | -0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 58 (F) | -23 | -23.7 |
§ 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 | Sense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 3 | 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; Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sense sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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