§ The result
Zoho Recruit leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Zoho Recruit scores 42 and Ceipal 35 under rubric v1.0 — a 7-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Zoho Recruit is ahead of Ceipal on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Post-Market Monitoring at Ceipal 38 to Zoho Recruit 40. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 30, Zoho Recruit 45 — and at a 20% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Zoho Recruit 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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Ceipal and Zoho Recruit 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 Zoho Recruit is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ceipal | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2015 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Zoho Recruit 45
3.0 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Zoho Recruit 55
1.3 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.8 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
18% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Zoho Recruit 24
0.7 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.6 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Zoho Recruit 50
0.5 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.2 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -7.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 45 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 24 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 55 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 50 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 42 (F) | -7 | -7.1 |
§ 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 | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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