§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 separates SmartRecruiters and Ceipal, both ATS-integrated entries, by 27 points: 62 (D) for SmartRecruiters, 35 (F) for Ceipal. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Ceipal leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Ceipal 20, SmartRecruiters 78, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 38% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Ceipal and SmartRecruiters 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 SmartRecruiters is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Ceipal | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · SmartRecruiters 78
10.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · SmartRecruiters 70
8.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · SmartRecruiters 45
3.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · SmartRecruiters 62
2.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -27.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -27 beside that -27.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 70 | -40 | -8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 78 | -58 | -10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 45 | -20 | -3.0 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 48 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 63 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 62 (D) | -27 | -27.8 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 2 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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