§ The result
1 point separates Zoho Recruit and Recruitly.
Under rubric v1.0, Zoho Recruit and Recruitly finish 1 point apart, 42 to 41, as two ATS-integrated entries. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to Recruitly and Zoho Recruit, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side Zoho Recruit holds, headed by Bias Audit Transparency, settle the total. Zoho Recruit takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Recruitly 15, Zoho Recruit 24), which is 49% of the weighted advantage Zoho Recruit holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Data Governance Disclosure, Recruitly 45 to Zoho Recruit 55.
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.
Vendor profile
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based applicant tracking and recruiting platform whose Zia AI assistant performs resume parsing, skills-based candidate-to-job matching, match scoring, sourcing, and AI-assisted screening and assessments.
§ The record
Recruitly and Zoho Recruit are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Sourcing and Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Zoho Recruit is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Recruitly | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Low |
| Headquarters | AE | IN |
| Founded | 2015 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitly 15 · Zoho Recruit 24
1.6 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitly 45 · Zoho Recruit 55
1.5 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruitly 60 · Zoho Recruit 50
1.2 weighted points to Recruitly
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Recruitly 35 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.8 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitly 45 · Zoho Recruit 40
0.6 weighted points to Recruitly
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitly 58 · Zoho Recruit 60
0.2 weighted points to Zoho Recruit
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitly minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Recruitly | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 24 | -9 | -1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 42 (F) | -1 | -0.7 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 0 | 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% | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Zoho Recruit has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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