§ The result
1 point separates LinkedIn Recruiter and Pymetrics (Harver Games).
LinkedIn Recruiter holds a 1-point edge over Pymetrics (Harver Games) under rubric v1.0, 57 to 56, across the Sourcing and Assessment cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of LinkedIn Recruiter: LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on FRIA Support and Pymetrics (Harver Games) on Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Pymetrics (Harver Games) — LinkedIn Recruiter 50, Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80, on an 18% weight — which is 90% of the weighted advantage Pymetrics (Harver Games) holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Behavioral assessment using browser-based "games" that infer cognitive and emotional traits. Acquired by Harver in 2022 and folded into the Harver Games product line.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Pymetrics (Harver Games) under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Pymetrics (Harver Games) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Pymetrics (Harver Games) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80
5.4 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 25
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 50
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 35
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 55
1.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
20% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 70
0.6 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 60
0.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Pymetrics (Harver Games).
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 70 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 80 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 56 (F) | +1 | +1.0 |
§ 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 | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources 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 a separate 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 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 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; Pymetrics (Harver Games) has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter and Pymetrics (Harver Games) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 11 for Pymetrics (Harver Games), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pymetrics (Harver Games) last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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