§ The result
Phenom leads Entelo by 19 points.
Phenom finishes 19 points clear of Entelo inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 52 against 33. Phenom leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Entelo leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Entelo 20, Phenom 75 — and at an 18% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage Phenom holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Entelo
Entelo is an AI-powered talent sourcing and diversity-recruiting platform that aggregates hundreds of millions of public candidate profiles and applies predictive machine-learning models to score, rank, and surface (including underrepresented) candidates for recruiters.
Vendor profile
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
§ The record
Entelo and Phenom 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 | Entelo | Phenom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Entelo 20 · Phenom 75
9.9 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Entelo 30 · Phenom 55
5.0 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Entelo 45 · Phenom 60
2.3 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Entelo 42 · Phenom 60
2.2 weighted points to Phenom
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Entelo 40 · Phenom 55
1.2 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Entelo 35 · Phenom 30
0.6 weighted points to Entelo
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -19.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Entelo minus Phenom.
| Category | Weight | Entelo | Phenom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 55 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 75 | -55 | -9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 52 (F) | -19 | -19.9 |
§ 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 | Entelo | Phenom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Entelo has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 26 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Entelo, across 3 distinct source domains, and 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Entelo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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