§ The result
Gem leads Recruitly on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Gem, filed under Sourcing, comes out 14 points above Recruitly, filed under ATS-integrated: 55 against 41 under rubric v1.0. Recruitly is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Gem takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Human Oversight Design, Gem 61 to Recruitly 60. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Gem 66, Recruitly 15 — and at an 18% weight it carries 64% of the weighted advantage Gem holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Gem
Gem is an AI-first recruiting platform combining a talent CRM, AI sourcing and outreach automation, candidate engagement, and a newer applicant tracking system with AI-powered application review and ranking.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
§ The record
Gem is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Recruitly 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.
| Record | Gem | Recruitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | AE |
| Founded | 2017 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Gem 66 · Recruitly 15
9.2 weighted points to Gem
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Gem 58 · Recruitly 45
2.6 weighted points to Gem
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Gem 57 · Recruitly 45
1.8 weighted points to Gem
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Gem 62 · Recruitly 58
0.3 weighted points to Gem
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Gem 47 · Recruitly 45
0.2 weighted points to Gem
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Gem 61 · Recruitly 60
0.1 weighted points to Gem
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +14.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Gem minus Recruitly.
| Category | Weight | Gem | Recruitly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 66 | 15 | +51 | +9.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 45 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 60 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 45 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 41 (F) | +14 | +14.3 |
§ 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 | Gem | Recruitly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Gem has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Gem 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: 21 for Gem, across 2 distinct source domains, and 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Gem last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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