§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Fetcher on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter finishes 20 points clear of Fetcher inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 57 against 37. LinkedIn Recruiter takes all 7 criteria and Fetcher none of them; the nearest contest is Data Governance Disclosure, Fetcher 55 to LinkedIn Recruiter 62. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Fetcher 27, LinkedIn Recruiter 67) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Fetcher
AI-powered candidate sourcing and outbound recruiting platform that automates passive and active talent sourcing, personalized email outreach, and inbound applicant screening for corporate recruiting teams.
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
Fetcher 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 | Fetcher | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fetcher 27 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
8.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fetcher 28 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
4.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fetcher 25 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fetcher 35 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fetcher 52 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.7 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fetcher 55 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
1.1 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fetcher 55 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
1.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -20 beside that -19.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fetcher minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Fetcher | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 27 | 67 | -40 | -8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 38 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 66 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 68 | -13 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 57 (F) | -20 | -19.5 |
§ 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 | Fetcher | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Fetcher has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 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 LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Fetcher, across 1 distinct source domain, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fetcher last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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