§ The result
Checkr leads Recruit CRM by 14 points.
Checkr sits 14 points above Recruit CRM under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 40 — with Checkr filed under Screening and Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Checkr: Checkr is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Recruit CRM on FRIA Support. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Checkr 70, Recruit CRM 34) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 53% of the weighted advantage Checkr holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Checkr
Checkr is an FCRA-regulated background screening platform that uses machine learning to parse, classify and standardize criminal, employment, education and motor-vehicle records, and to route them through customer-configured adjudication rulesets that flag candidates as eligible, review or escalated for employment decisions.
Vendor profile
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Checkr is filed under Screening AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Checkr is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Checkr | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Checkr 70 · Recruit CRM 34
7.2 weighted points to Checkr
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Checkr 35 · Recruit CRM 20
2.7 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · Recruit CRM 54
1.2 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · Recruit CRM 58
1.0 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · Recruit CRM 42
1.0 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · Recruit CRM 60
0.6 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · Recruit CRM 34
0.3 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 34 | +36 | +7.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 34 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 40 (F) | +14 | +13.4 |
§ 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 | Checkr | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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