§ The result
3 points separate Recruitly and impress.ai.
Recruitly (ATS-integrated) edges impress.ai (Screening) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 41 to 38. impress.ai takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 4 for Recruitly, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (impress.ai 32, Recruitly 45) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (impress.ai 35, Recruitly 45), 33% of the weighted advantage Recruitly 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
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
§ The record
impress.ai is filed under Screening AI, Recruitly under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only impress.ai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | impress.ai | Recruitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | SG | AE |
| Founded | 2017 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
impress.ai 35 · Recruitly 45
2.0 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
impress.ai 32 · Recruitly 45
1.6 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
impress.ai 25 · Recruitly 35
1.5 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
impress.ai 55 · Recruitly 45
1.5 weighted points to impress.ai
18% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
impress.ai 22 · Recruitly 15
1.3 weighted points to impress.ai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
impress.ai 52 · Recruitly 60
1.0 weighted points to Recruitly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is impress.ai minus Recruitly.
| Category | Weight | impress.ai | Recruitly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 15 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 45 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 41 (F) | -3 | -3.3 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | 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 | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain, and 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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