§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Paradox on 6 of the 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter finishes 16 points clear of Paradox under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 41 — across the Sourcing and Scheduling cohorts. LinkedIn Recruiter leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Paradox is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 LinkedIn Recruiter leads is FRIA Support, LinkedIn Recruiter 38 to Paradox 25. The advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, Paradox 40, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points LinkedIn Recruiter gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
Paradox
Conversational AI ("Olivia") that screens, schedules, and engages candidates over chat and SMS, often deployed on top of an existing ATS.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paradox under Scheduling 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | Paradox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Paradox 40
5.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Paradox 45
2.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Paradox 25
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Paradox 50
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Paradox 45
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Paradox 35
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Paradox.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Paradox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 40 | +27 | +5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 45 | +23 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 41 (F) | +16 | +15.5 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | Paradox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Paradox has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter and Paradox sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 10 for Paradox, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paradox last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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