§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Draup on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, LinkedIn Recruiter opens a 15-point lead on Draup, 57 to 42, with both scored in the Sourcing cohort. LinkedIn Recruiter leads every one of the 7 criteria, Draup none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Draup 54 to LinkedIn Recruiter 62. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Draup 28, LinkedIn Recruiter 50) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Draup 48, LinkedIn Recruiter 67), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Draup
Draup is an AI-powered talent- and sales-intelligence platform that aggregates over a billion public professional profiles into skills, roles and labour-market analytics, and surfaces ranked candidate shortlists for enterprise workforce planning and recruiting.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
§ The record
Draup and LinkedIn Recruiter are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Draup | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Draup 48 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
3.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Draup 33 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
3.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Draup 28 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
2.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Draup 25 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Draup 54 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Draup 58 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Draup 57 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.5 — 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 -15 beside that -14.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Draup minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Draup | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 67 | -19 | -3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 50 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 68 | -11 | -0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 57 (F) | -15 | -14.5 |
§ 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 | Draup | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Draup has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Draup and LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Draup, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Draup last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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