§ The result
Factorial leads Recruit CRM on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Factorial finishes 6 points ahead of Recruit CRM under rubric v1.0, 46 to 40, both scored as ATS-integrated entries. Recruit CRM is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Factorial takes 5, the remaining 2 are level, and the nearest of those 5 is FRIA Support, Factorial 35 to Recruit CRM 34. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Factorial 52, Recruit CRM 34 — and at a 20% weight it carries 62% of the weighted advantage Factorial holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Factorial
Factorial is a Barcelona-based all-in-one HR, finance and IT platform for small and mid-sized businesses. Its applicant tracking system has optional AI matching, which shows a percentage fit for applicants it recommends interviewing, plus CV summaries, AI-written job posts and AI Calls, where a voice agent phone-screens candidates and gives each a match label that can move them to the next stage automatically.
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
Factorial and Recruit CRM are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Factorial is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Factorial | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Low |
| Headquarters | ES | US |
| Founded | 2016 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Factorial 52 · Recruit CRM 34
3.6 weighted points to Factorial
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Factorial 25 · Recruit CRM 20
0.9 weighted points to Factorial
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Factorial 48 · Recruit CRM 42
0.7 weighted points to Factorial
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Factorial 57 · Recruit CRM 54
0.4 weighted points to Factorial
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Factorial 35 · Recruit CRM 34
0.1 weighted points to Factorial
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +5.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Factorial minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Factorial | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 34 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 34 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 54 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 40 (F) | +6 | +5.8 |
§ 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 | Factorial | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Factorial has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 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 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Factorial, across 3 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Factorial last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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