§ The result
Factorial leads Zoho Recruit on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Factorial holds a 4-point edge over Zoho Recruit under rubric v1.0, 46 to 42, with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. Zoho Recruit is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Factorial takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Bias Audit Transparency, Factorial 25 to Zoho Recruit 24. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Human Oversight Design (Factorial 58, Zoho Recruit 50) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Factorial 52, Zoho Recruit 45), the second being 31% of the weighted advantage Factorial holds across the 6 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
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
Factorial and Zoho Recruit are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Factorial | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Low |
| Headquarters | ES | IN |
| Founded | 2016 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Factorial 52 · Zoho Recruit 45
1.4 weighted points to Factorial
12% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Factorial 58 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.0 weighted points to Factorial
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Factorial 48 · Zoho Recruit 40
1.0 weighted points to Factorial
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Factorial 35 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.8 weighted points to Factorial
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Factorial 57 · Zoho Recruit 55
0.3 weighted points to Factorial
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Factorial 25 · Zoho Recruit 24
0.2 weighted points to Factorial
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Factorial minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Factorial | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 24 | +1 | +0.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 40 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 42 (F) | +4 | +4.5 |
§ 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 | Factorial | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Factorial has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Factorial, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Factorial last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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