§ The result
Lever leads Recruit CRM by 9 points.
Inside the ATS-integrated cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Lever on 49 and Recruit CRM on 40, 9 points apart. Lever leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Recruit CRM leads 2, including FRIA Support. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Lever 42, Recruit CRM 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Lever holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
Vendor profile
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Lever and Recruit CRM are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Lever is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Lever | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Lever 42 · Recruit CRM 20
4.0 weighted points to Lever
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Lever 52 · Recruit CRM 34
3.6 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Lever 58 · Recruit CRM 54
0.6 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Lever 45 · Recruit CRM 42
0.4 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Lever 32 · Recruit CRM 34
0.3 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Lever 60 · Recruit CRM 58
0.2 weighted points to Lever
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Lever 58 · Recruit CRM 60
0.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +8.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Lever minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Lever | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 34 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 34 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 49 (F) | 40 (F) | +9 | +8.3 |
§ 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 | Lever | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Lever has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Lever and Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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