§ The result
HiringBranch leads RecruitBot on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, HiringBranch (Assessment) opens a 15-point lead on RecruitBot (Sourcing), 52 to 37. RecruitBot is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: HiringBranch takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Human Oversight Design, HiringBranch 52 to RecruitBot 50. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiringBranch 60, RecruitBot 22 — and at an 18% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 6 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
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
HiringBranch is filed under Assessment AI, RecruitBot under Candidate sourcing 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 | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · RecruitBot 22
6.8 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · RecruitBot 33
5.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · RecruitBot 27
1.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · RecruitBot 48
1.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · RecruitBot 55
0.7 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · RecruitBot 50
0.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 33 | +27 | +5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 22 | +38 | +6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 37 (F) | +15 | +15.5 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 25 | 6 | 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; 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 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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