§ The result
Phenom leads ZipRecruiter by 12 points.
Both filed under Sourcing, Phenom and ZipRecruiter come out 52 and 40 under rubric v1.0, 12 points in favour of Phenom. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Phenom: Phenom is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and ZipRecruiter on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Phenom 75, ZipRecruiter 24) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 65% of the weighted advantage Phenom holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
Vendor profile
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace whose AI matching engine sends employers' job postings out, alerts matched job seekers and invites them to apply, and labels and ranks applicants (for example as 'Great Match') in the employer's candidate dashboard.
§ The record
Phenom and ZipRecruiter are both filed under Candidate sourcing 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 | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Phenom 75 · ZipRecruiter 24
9.2 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Phenom 55 · ZipRecruiter 40
3.0 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Phenom 60 · ZipRecruiter 52
1.2 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Phenom 30 · ZipRecruiter 40
1.2 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Phenom 60 · ZipRecruiter 55
0.6 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Phenom 25 · ZipRecruiter 27
0.3 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Phenom 55 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.1 weighted points to Phenom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +12.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.6 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 +12.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Phenom minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | Phenom | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 24 | +51 | +9.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 40 (F) | +12 | +12.6 |
§ 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 | Phenom | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 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 | 28 | 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; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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