§ The result
1 point separates Recruitly and Personio.
Recruitly holds a 1-point edge over Personio under rubric v1.0, 41 to 40, with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. Personio takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 4 for Recruitly, whose share includes Human Oversight Design. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Personio takes Bias Audit Transparency at 18%, Personio 25 to Recruitly 15, 56% of the weighted advantage Personio holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Human Oversight Design, Personio 48 to Recruitly 60.
Vendor profile
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.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
§ The record
Personio and Recruitly are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Personio | Recruitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | DE | AE |
| Founded | 2015 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Personio 25 · Recruitly 15
1.8 weighted points to Personio
12% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Personio 48 · Recruitly 60
1.4 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Personio 52 · Recruitly 45
1.1 weighted points to Personio
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Personio 40 · Recruitly 45
1.0 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Personio 30 · Recruitly 35
0.8 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Personio 50 · Recruitly 58
0.6 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Personio 48 · Recruitly 45
0.4 weighted points to Personio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.0 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 -0.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Personio minus Recruitly.
| Category | Weight | Personio | Recruitly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 45 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 15 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 41 (F) | -1 | -0.6 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | 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 | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Personio has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Personio 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: 20 for Personio, across 5 distinct source domains, and 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Personio last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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