Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Personio vs Recruit CRM
Personio
Personio is a European cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized companies that combines an HRIS with recruiting/ATS, time tracking, payroll and an AI assistant, and is adding agentic AI candidate sourcing and application screening through its 2026 acquisition of aurio.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Personio and Recruit CRM tie at 40.
Personio and Recruit CRM, both in the ATS-integrated cohort, tie at 40 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Personio leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Recruit CRM 4, yet the two totals land on the same number. Personio takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Personio 40, Recruit CRM 34), which is 43% of the weighted advantage Personio holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Human Oversight Design, Personio 48 to Recruit CRM 58.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Personio3
- Recruit CRM4
- Widest raw gap
- Human Oversight Design48 vs 58
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Personio and Recruit CRM are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
Only Personio is in scope of
| Record | Personio | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2015 | Not recorded |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight21% of the movement so far
Personio40Recruit CRM341.2 weighted points to Personio
- 2
Human Oversight Design
12% weight42% of the movement so far
Personio48Recruit CRM581.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
- 3
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight58% of the movement so far
Personio25Recruit CRM200.9 weighted points to Personio
- 4
Customer Documentation
8% weight72% of the movement so far
Personio50Recruit CRM600.8 weighted points to Recruit CRM
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight84% of the movement so far
Personio48Recruit CRM420.7 weighted points to Personio
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight95% of the movement so far
Personio30Recruit CRM340.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
- 7
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Personio52Recruit CRM540.3 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Personio minus Recruit CRM, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Personio | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 34 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 20 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 34 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 54 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 58 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 40F | 40F | - | -0.1 |
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 | Personio | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Personio has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Personio and Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Personio, across 5 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Personio last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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