§ The result
Recruitee leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Recruitee scores 42 and Zappyhire 34 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Recruitee is ahead of Zappyhire on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at Recruitee 30 to Zappyhire 28. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Recruitee 58, Zappyhire 45) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Recruitee 42, Zappyhire 30), the second being 30% of the weighted advantage Recruitee holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Recruitee
Collaborative applicant tracking system, part of the Tellent group, with AI-assisted features for job-description generation, screening candidates against team-defined criteria, resurfacing past applicants, and summarizing evaluation feedback.
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
Recruitee is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Recruitee | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | IN |
| Founded | 2015 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitee 42 · Zappyhire 30
2.4 weighted points to Recruitee
15% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitee 52 · Zappyhire 42
1.5 weighted points to Recruitee
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitee 40 · Zappyhire 28
1.4 weighted points to Recruitee
8% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitee 58 · Zappyhire 45
1.0 weighted points to Recruitee
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruitee 58 · Zappyhire 50
1.0 weighted points to Recruitee
18% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitee 30 · Zappyhire 28
0.4 weighted points to Recruitee
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitee 27 · Zappyhire 25
0.3 weighted points to Recruitee
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitee minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Recruitee | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 28 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 25 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 34 (F) | +8 | +8.0 |
§ 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 | Recruitee | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Recruitee has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 7 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 Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Recruitee, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitee last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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