§ The result
Sense takes the total, LinkedIn Recruiter takes more of the criteria.
Sense holds a 1-point edge over LinkedIn Recruiter under rubric v1.0, 58 to 57, across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. LinkedIn Recruiter leads more of the criteria, 4 against 2 for Sense, yet Sense takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — LinkedIn Recruiter 50, Sense 72 — and at an 18% weight it carries 94% of the weighted advantage Sense 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
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Sense under Screening 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.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Sense 72
4.0 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Sense 60
1.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Sense 58
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Sense 62
0.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Sense 64
0.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Sense 52
0.2 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.9 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 -1.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Sense.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Sense | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 60 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 72 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 64 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 58 (F) | -1 | -1.5 |
§ 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 | Sense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 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 | 16 | 3 | 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; Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter and Sense sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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