§ The result
Indeed leads RecruitBot on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Sourcing entries Indeed and RecruitBot at 50 and 37, a gap of 13 points. RecruitBot is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Indeed takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Customer Documentation, Indeed 64 to RecruitBot 55. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Indeed 58, RecruitBot 33, 20% weight), is only 38% of the weighted advantage Indeed 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
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
Indeed and RecruitBot are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Indeed is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Indeed | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Indeed 58 · RecruitBot 33
5.0 weighted points to Indeed
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Indeed 38 · RecruitBot 22
2.9 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Indeed 38 · RecruitBot 27
1.6 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Indeed 63 · RecruitBot 50
1.6 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Indeed 58 · RecruitBot 48
1.5 weighted points to Indeed
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Indeed 64 · RecruitBot 55
0.7 weighted points to Indeed
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +13.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Indeed minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | Indeed | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 33 | +25 | +5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 22 | +16 | +2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 27 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 37 (F) | +13 | +13.3 |
§ 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 | Indeed | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Sources 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; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Indeed and RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Indeed, across 5 distinct source domains, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Indeed last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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