§ The result
Talkpush leads Recruit CRM by 6 points.
Talkpush scores 46 and Recruit CRM 40 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Recruit CRM and Talkpush each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split Talkpush holds (headed by Bias Audit Transparency) adds up to more weighted points. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Recruit CRM 20, Talkpush 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 49% of the weighted advantage Talkpush holds across the 3 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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
Recruit CRM is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Talkpush under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Talkpush is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Recruit CRM | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | HK |
| Founded | Not recorded | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruit CRM 20 · Talkpush 42
4.0 weighted points to Talkpush
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruit CRM 34 · Talkpush 52
3.6 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruit CRM 54 · Talkpush 44
1.5 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruit CRM 34 · Talkpush 27
1.1 weighted points to Recruit CRM
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruit CRM 42 · Talkpush 46
0.5 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruit CRM 58 · Talkpush 56
0.2 weighted points to Recruit CRM
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruit CRM minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | Recruit CRM | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 34 | 52 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 42 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 27 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 44 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 46 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 46 (F) | -6 | -5.3 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 30 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 21 | 7 | Sources 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM and Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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