§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Indeed on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Inside the Sourcing cohort, rubric v1.0 puts LinkedIn Recruiter on 57 and Indeed on 50, 7 points apart. LinkedIn Recruiter leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Indeed is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 LinkedIn Recruiter leads is Human Oversight Design, Indeed 63 to LinkedIn Recruiter 66. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Indeed 38, LinkedIn Recruiter 50, 18% weight), is only 34% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Indeed
Job marketplace whose employer-side AI (the Talent Scout agent, Sourcing Assistant, Smart Screening and candidate matching) sources, ranks and scores candidates from Indeed's profile pool and applicant flow and drafts outreach to them.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
§ The record
Indeed and LinkedIn Recruiter are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Indeed | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Indeed 38 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
2.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Indeed 58 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Indeed 40 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
1.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Indeed 58 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Indeed 63 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
0.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Indeed 64 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
0.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Indeed minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | Indeed | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 67 | -9 | -1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 66 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 68 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 57 (F) | -7 | -6.4 |
§ 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 | Indeed | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Indeed has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Indeed and LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 79 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Indeed, across 5 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Indeed last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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