§ The result
2 points separate Recruit CRM and impress.ai.
Recruit CRM (ATS-integrated) edges impress.ai (Screening) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 40 to 38. Recruit CRM leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while impress.ai leads 3, including Bias Audit Transparency. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (impress.ai 32, Recruit CRM 42) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is FRIA Support at 15% (impress.ai 25, Recruit CRM 34), 39% of the weighted advantage Recruit CRM builds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment automation platform that uses conversational AI assistants, resume parsing and scoring, and structured competency-based screening to filter, rank and shortlist job candidates, integrating with enterprise ATS systems.
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
impress.ai is filed under Screening AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only impress.ai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | impress.ai | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2017 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 33% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
impress.ai 25 · Recruit CRM 34
1.3 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
impress.ai 32 · Recruit CRM 42
1.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
impress.ai 52 · Recruit CRM 58
0.7 weighted points to Recruit CRM
18% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
impress.ai 22 · Recruit CRM 20
0.4 weighted points to impress.ai
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
impress.ai 35 · Recruit CRM 34
0.2 weighted points to impress.ai
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
impress.ai 58 · Recruit CRM 60
0.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
impress.ai 55 · Recruit CRM 54
0.1 weighted points to impress.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -2.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is impress.ai minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | impress.ai | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 34 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 20 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 34 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 42 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 40 (F) | -2 | -2.7 |
§ 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 | impress.ai | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 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 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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