§ The result
HiringBranch leads Recruit CRM by 12 points.
HiringBranch, filed under Assessment, comes out 12 points above Recruit CRM, filed under ATS-integrated: 52 against 40 under rubric v1.0. Recruit CRM takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 5 for HiringBranch, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiringBranch 60, Recruit CRM 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
Vendor profile
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
HiringBranch is filed under Assessment AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only HiringBranch is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiringBranch | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2014 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · Recruit CRM 20
7.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · Recruit CRM 34
5.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · Recruit CRM 58
0.7 weighted points to Recruit CRM
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · Recruit CRM 60
0.3 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · Recruit CRM 42
0.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · Recruit CRM 34
0.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · Recruit CRM 54
0.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 34 | +26 | +5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 20 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 34 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 60 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 40 (F) | +12 | +12.1 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | 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% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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