§ The result
1 point separates LinkedIn Recruiter and Sapia.ai.
LinkedIn Recruiter (Sourcing) edges Sapia.ai (Assessment) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 57 to 56. LinkedIn Recruiter leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Human Oversight Design, while Sapia.ai leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 2 are level. Sapia.ai takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, Sapia.ai 70), 63% of the weighted advantage it builds, while the widest raw gap is on Customer Documentation, LinkedIn Recruiter 68 to Sapia.ai 62.
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
Sapia.ai
Structured, text-based chat interview that scores candidates on personality (HEXACO) and competency traits - with no video, audio, or demographic data used.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Sapia.ai under Assessment 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 Sapia.ai is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Sapia.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2002 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Sapia.ai 70
0.6 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Sapia.ai 62
0.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Sapia.ai 62
0.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Sapia.ai 35
0.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Sapia.ai 52
0.4 weighted points to Sapia.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +0.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.4 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 +0.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Sapia.ai.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Sapia.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 70 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 56 (F) | +1 | +0.4 |
§ 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 | Sapia.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | 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; Sapia.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter and Sapia.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 20 for Sapia.ai, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sapia.ai last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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