§ The result
3 points separate RecruitBot and Zappyhire.
RecruitBot (Sourcing) edges Zappyhire (Screening) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 37 to 34. Zappyhire takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 5 for RecruitBot, whose share includes Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Even Post-Market Monitoring, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (RecruitBot 40, Zappyhire 28, 12% weight), is only 36% of the weighted advantage RecruitBot builds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
Vendor profile
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
RecruitBot is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Zappyhire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | RecruitBot | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2017 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
RecruitBot 40 · Zappyhire 28
1.4 weighted points to RecruitBot
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RecruitBot 22 · Zappyhire 28
1.1 weighted points to Zappyhire
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RecruitBot 48 · Zappyhire 42
0.9 weighted points to RecruitBot
8% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RecruitBot 55 · Zappyhire 45
0.8 weighted points to RecruitBot
20% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RecruitBot 33 · Zappyhire 30
0.6 weighted points to RecruitBot
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RecruitBot 27 · Zappyhire 25
0.3 weighted points to RecruitBot
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RecruitBot minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | RecruitBot | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 30 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 28 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 25 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 34 (F) | +3 | +3.0 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for RecruitBot and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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