§ The result
HiredScore leads Zoho Recruit by 10 points.
HiredScore sits 10 points above Zoho Recruit under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 42 — with HiredScore filed under Sourcing and Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated. HiredScore leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Zoho Recruit leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 3 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiredScore 55, Zoho Recruit 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
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
HiredScore is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiredScore | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2012 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · Zoho Recruit 24
5.6 weighted points to HiredScore
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · Zoho Recruit 45
4.0 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.2 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.6 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +10.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 45 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 24 | +31 | +5.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 42 (F) | +10 | +10.2 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 26 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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