§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Recruit CRM on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, SmartRecruiters opens a 22-point lead on Recruit CRM, 62 (D) to 40 (F), with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria, Recruit CRM none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, Recruit CRM 60 to SmartRecruiters 63. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Recruit CRM 20, SmartRecruiters 78 — and at an 18% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Recruit CRM and SmartRecruiters are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only SmartRecruiters is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Recruit CRM | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruit CRM 20 · SmartRecruiters 78
10.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruit CRM 34 · SmartRecruiters 70
7.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruit CRM 34 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruit CRM 54 · SmartRecruiters 62
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruit CRM 42 · SmartRecruiters 48
0.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruit CRM 58 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruit CRM 60 · SmartRecruiters 63
0.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -21.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -22 beside that -21.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruit CRM minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Recruit CRM | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 70 | -36 | -7.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 78 | -58 | -10.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 45 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 62 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 48 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 62 (D) | -22 | -21.9 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next