§ The result
Phenom leads Recruitee by 10 points.
Phenom sits 10 points above Recruitee under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 42 — with Phenom filed under Sourcing and Recruitee under ATS-integrated. Phenom leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Recruitee leads 3, including Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Phenom 75, Recruitee 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 67% 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
Recruitee
Collaborative applicant tracking system, part of the Tellent group, with AI-assisted features for job-description generation, screening candidates against team-defined criteria, resurfacing past applicants, and summarizing evaluation feedback.
§ The record
Phenom is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Recruitee under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Phenom | Recruitee |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2010 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Phenom 75 · Recruitee 30
8.1 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Phenom 55 · Recruitee 42
2.6 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Phenom 60 · Recruitee 52
1.2 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Phenom 30 · Recruitee 40
1.2 weighted points to Recruitee
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Phenom 25 · Recruitee 27
0.3 weighted points to Recruitee
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Phenom 60 · Recruitee 58
0.2 weighted points to Phenom
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Phenom 55 · Recruitee 58
0.2 weighted points to Recruitee
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Phenom minus Recruitee.
| Category | Weight | Phenom | Recruitee | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 30 | +45 | +8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 42 (F) | +10 | +10.4 |
§ 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 | Recruitee | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Recruitee has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 21 for Recruitee, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitee last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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