§ The result
Criteria leads Zoho Recruit on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Criteria sits 11 points above Zoho Recruit under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 42 — with Criteria filed under Assessment and Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated. Criteria leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Zoho Recruit is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Criteria leads is FRIA Support, Criteria 32 to Zoho Recruit 30. Criteria takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Criteria 68, Zoho Recruit 45), which is 41% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, Criteria 48 to Zoho Recruit 24.
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
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
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, Zoho Recruit 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, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2006 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · Zoho Recruit 45
4.6 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · Zoho Recruit 24
4.3 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · Zoho Recruit 55
1.1 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · Zoho Recruit 50
0.7 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.3 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.2 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +11.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +11.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 45 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 24 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 42 (F) | +11 | +11.2 |
§ 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 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 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 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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