§ The result
Spark Hire leads Recruit CRM by 13 points.
Spark Hire sits 13 points above Recruit CRM under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 40 — with Spark Hire filed under Video interview and Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated. Spark Hire leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Recruit CRM leads 2, including FRIA Support. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Recruit CRM 20, Spark Hire 62) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 54% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Recruit CRM is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Spark Hire under Video interview AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Spark Hire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Recruit CRM | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruit CRM 20 · Spark Hire 62
7.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruit CRM 34 · Spark Hire 58
4.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruit CRM 54 · Spark Hire 60
0.9 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruit CRM 34 · Spark Hire 30
0.6 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruit CRM 58 · Spark Hire 62
0.5 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruit CRM 42 · Spark Hire 38
0.5 weighted points to Recruit CRM
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruit CRM 60 · Spark Hire 64
0.3 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruit CRM minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Recruit CRM | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 58 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 62 | -42 | -7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 30 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 60 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 53 (F) | -13 | -13.0 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate 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; Spark Hire 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 Spark Hire 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 Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next