§ The result
Sapia.ai leads Recruit CRM on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Sapia.ai (Assessment) opens a 16-point lead on Recruit CRM (ATS-integrated), 56 to 40. Sapia.ai leads every one of the 7 criteria, Recruit CRM none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Recruit CRM 34 to Sapia.ai 35. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Recruit CRM 34, Sapia.ai 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Sapia.ai holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Sapia.ai
Structured, text-based chat interview that scores candidates on personality (HEXACO) and competency traits - with no video, audio, or demographic data used.
§ The record
Recruit CRM is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sapia.ai under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Sapia.ai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Recruit CRM | Sapia.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruit CRM 34 · Sapia.ai 70
7.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
18% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruit CRM 20 · Sapia.ai 52
5.8 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruit CRM 54 · Sapia.ai 62
1.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruit CRM 42 · Sapia.ai 50
1.0 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruit CRM 58 · Sapia.ai 62
0.5 weighted points to Sapia.ai
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruit CRM 60 · Sapia.ai 62
0.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruit CRM 34 · Sapia.ai 35
0.1 weighted points to Sapia.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -15.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruit CRM minus Sapia.ai.
| Category | Weight | Recruit CRM | Sapia.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 70 | -36 | -7.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 52 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 35 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 56 (F) | -16 | -15.9 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | Sapia.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Sapia.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM and Sapia.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Sapia.ai, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sapia.ai last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next