§ The result
1 point separates impress.ai and RecruitBot.
impress.ai (Screening) edges RecruitBot (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 38 to 37. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of impress.ai, with 1 level: impress.ai is ahead on Data Governance Disclosure and RecruitBot on Post-Market Monitoring. Data Governance Disclosure, at 15%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to impress.ai (impress.ai 55, RecruitBot 48), 54% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Post-Market Monitoring, impress.ai 32 to RecruitBot 40.
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
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
impress.ai is filed under Screening 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 impress.ai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | impress.ai | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
impress.ai 55 · RecruitBot 48
1.1 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
impress.ai 32 · RecruitBot 40
1.0 weighted points to RecruitBot
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
impress.ai 35 · RecruitBot 33
0.4 weighted points to impress.ai
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
impress.ai 25 · RecruitBot 27
0.3 weighted points to RecruitBot
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
impress.ai 52 · RecruitBot 50
0.2 weighted points to impress.ai
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
impress.ai 58 · RecruitBot 55
0.2 weighted points to impress.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is impress.ai minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | impress.ai | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 33 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 22 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 37 (F) | +1 | +0.7 |
§ 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 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 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% | 3 | 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% | 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 | 25 | 6 | 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; 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 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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