§ The result
Indeed leads Zoho Recruit on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Indeed, filed under Sourcing, finishes on 50 and Zoho Recruit, filed under ATS-integrated, on 42, 8 points apart. Zoho Recruit is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Indeed takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Data Governance Disclosure, Indeed 58 to Zoho Recruit 55. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Indeed 38, Zoho Recruit 24) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Indeed 58, Zoho Recruit 45), the second being 30% of the weighted advantage Indeed holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Indeed is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated 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. Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Indeed | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2004 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Indeed 58 · Zoho Recruit 45
2.6 weighted points to Indeed
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Indeed 38 · Zoho Recruit 24
2.5 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Indeed 63 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.6 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Indeed 38 · Zoho Recruit 30
1.2 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Indeed 58 · Zoho Recruit 55
0.4 weighted points to Indeed
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Indeed 64 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.3 weighted points to Indeed
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +8.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Indeed minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Indeed | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 38 | 24 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 50 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 60 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 50 (F) | 42 (F) | +8 | +8.7 |
§ 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 | Indeed | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Indeed has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Indeed sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Indeed, across 5 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Indeed last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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