§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, LinkedIn Recruiter (Sourcing) opens a 23-point lead on Zappyhire (Screening), 57 to 34. Zappyhire leads none of the 7 criteria, and LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, Zappyhire 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 33% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds across the 7 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Zappyhire 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. Only Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2002 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Zappyhire 30
7.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Zappyhire 28
4.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Zappyhire 42
3.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Zappyhire 28
2.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Zappyhire 25
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Zappyhire 50
1.9 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Zappyhire 45
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +22.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +23 beside that +22.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 30 | +37 | +7.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 28 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 25 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 28 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 45 | +23 | +1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 34 (F) | +23 | +22.7 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 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 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next