§ The result
Criteria leads Recruit CRM by 13 points.
Criteria, filed under Assessment, comes out 13 points above Recruit CRM, filed under ATS-integrated: 53 against 40 under rubric v1.0. Recruit CRM takes 2 of the 7 criteria, FRIA Support among them, against 3 for Criteria, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 2 are level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Criteria 68, Recruit CRM 34 — and at a 20% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
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
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Criteria is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · Recruit CRM 34
6.8 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · Recruit CRM 20
5.0 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · Recruit CRM 54
1.2 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · Recruit CRM 34
0.3 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · Recruit CRM 58
0.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +12.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 34 | +34 | +6.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 20 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 34 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 40 (F) | +13 | +12.5 |
§ 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 | Criteria | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 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 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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