§ The result
Phenom leads Recruit CRM by 12 points.
Phenom, filed under Sourcing, comes out 12 points above Recruit CRM, filed under ATS-integrated: 52 against 40 under rubric v1.0. Recruit CRM takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 4 for Phenom, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Phenom 75, Recruit CRM 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 65% of the weighted advantage Phenom holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
Vendor profile
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.
§ The record
Phenom is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Phenom is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Phenom | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Phenom 75 · Recruit CRM 20
9.9 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Phenom 55 · Recruit CRM 34
4.2 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Phenom 30 · Recruit CRM 42
1.4 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Phenom 25 · Recruit CRM 34
1.3 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Phenom 60 · Recruit CRM 54
0.9 weighted points to Phenom
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Phenom 55 · Recruit CRM 60
0.4 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Phenom 60 · Recruit CRM 58
0.2 weighted points to Phenom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Phenom minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Phenom | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 34 | +21 | +4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 20 | +55 | +9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 34 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 40 (F) | +12 | +12.1 |
§ 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 | Phenom | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 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 Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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