§ The result
HiBob leads RecruitBot by 9 points.
HiBob scores 46 and RecruitBot 37 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. RecruitBot takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 6 for HiBob, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (HiBob 55, RecruitBot 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage HiBob holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
Vendor profile
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
§ The record
HiBob is filed under ATS-integrated AI, RecruitBot under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only HiBob is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | HiBob | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiBob 55 · RecruitBot 33
4.4 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiBob 63 · RecruitBot 50
1.6 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiBob 57 · RecruitBot 48
1.3 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiBob 35 · RecruitBot 27
1.2 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiBob 47 · RecruitBot 40
0.8 weighted points to HiBob
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiBob 61 · RecruitBot 55
0.5 weighted points to HiBob
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiBob 20 · RecruitBot 22
0.4 weighted points to RecruitBot
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiBob minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | HiBob | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 33 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 22 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 48 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 40 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 61 | 55 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 37 (F) | +9 | +9.5 |
§ 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 | HiBob | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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