§ The result
Phenom leads RecruitBot by 15 points.
The Sourcing cohort pairing of Phenom and RecruitBot comes out 52 to 37 under rubric v1.0, a 15-point lead for Phenom. Phenom leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while RecruitBot leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Phenom 75, RecruitBot 22 — and at an 18% weight it carries 56% 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
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
§ The record
Phenom and RecruitBot are both filed under Candidate sourcing 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 | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Phenom 75 · RecruitBot 22
9.5 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Phenom 55 · RecruitBot 33
4.4 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Phenom 60 · RecruitBot 48
1.8 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Phenom 60 · RecruitBot 50
1.2 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Phenom 30 · RecruitBot 40
1.2 weighted points to RecruitBot
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Phenom 25 · RecruitBot 27
0.3 weighted points to RecruitBot
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.4 — 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 +15 beside that +15.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Phenom minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | Phenom | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 33 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 22 | +53 | +9.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 48 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 37 (F) | +15 | +15.4 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 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 | 25 | 6 | 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; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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