§ The result
Criteria leads Recruitly by 12 points.
Criteria, filed under Assessment, comes out 12 points above Recruitly, filed under ATS-integrated: 53 against 41 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Criteria: Criteria is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Recruitly on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Criteria 48, Recruitly 15 — and at an 18% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 4 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
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
§ The record
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, Recruitly under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Criteria is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | Recruitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | AE |
| Founded | 2006 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · Recruitly 15
5.9 weighted points to Criteria
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · Recruitly 45
4.6 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · Recruitly 45
2.5 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · Recruitly 60
0.5 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · Recruitly 35
0.4 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · Recruitly 45
0.4 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · Recruitly 58
0.2 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus Recruitly.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Recruitly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 45 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 15 | +33 | +5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 41 (F) | +12 | +12.0 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | 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 | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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