§ The result
Recruitly leads Recruiterflow by 5 points.
Recruitly finishes 5 points ahead of Recruiterflow under rubric v1.0, 41 to 36, both scored as ATS-integrated entries. Recruitly leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Recruiterflow leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Recruiterflow 33, Recruitly 45 — and at a 20% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage Recruitly holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Recruiterflow
Recruiterflow is an ATS and CRM for recruiting agencies and executive search firms. Its AIRA AI layer ranks candidates already in a firm's database against each job with an explainable 0–100 Criteria Score (AIRA Matchmaker, shown as the 'AI Matches' card), and adds natural-language candidate search, external profile sourcing and an AI call notetaker that fills in interview scorecards.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
§ The record
Recruiterflow and Recruitly 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 Recruitly is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Recruiterflow | Recruitly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | AE |
| Founded | 2017 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruiterflow 33 · Recruitly 45
2.4 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruiterflow 33 · Recruitly 45
1.4 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruiterflow 30 · Recruitly 35
0.8 weighted points to Recruitly
18% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruiterflow 18 · Recruitly 15
0.5 weighted points to Recruiterflow
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruiterflow 58 · Recruitly 60
0.2 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruiterflow 56 · Recruitly 58
0.2 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruiterflow 44 · Recruitly 45
0.1 weighted points to Recruitly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruiterflow minus Recruitly.
| Category | Weight | Recruiterflow | Recruitly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 45 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 15 | +3 | +0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 45 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 33 | 45 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 36 (F) | 41 (F) | -5 | -4.6 |
§ 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 | Recruiterflow | Recruitly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Recruiterflow has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Recruiterflow, across 1 distinct source domain, and 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruiterflow last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next