§ The result
Thomas International leads Zoho Recruit on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Thomas International scores 48 and Zoho Recruit 42 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Thomas International leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Zoho Recruit is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Thomas International leads is Human Oversight Design, Thomas International 51 to Zoho Recruit 50. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Thomas International 43, Zoho Recruit 24 — and at an 18% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage Thomas International holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Thomas International
Thomas International provides psychometric and aptitude assessments (behaviour/DISC, cognitive ability, personality and emotional intelligence) with an AI coaching layer, used for hiring, candidate selection and employee development.
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
Thomas International is filed under Assessment AI, Zoho Recruit under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Thomas International | Zoho Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | GB | IN |
| Founded | 1981 | 1996 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Thomas International 43 · Zoho Recruit 24
3.4 weighted points to Thomas International
20% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Thomas International 54 · Zoho Recruit 45
1.8 weighted points to Thomas International
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Thomas International 33 · Zoho Recruit 30
0.4 weighted points to Thomas International
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Thomas International 57 · Zoho Recruit 55
0.3 weighted points to Thomas International
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Thomas International 51 · Zoho Recruit 50
0.1 weighted points to Thomas International
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +6.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.1 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 +6.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Thomas International minus Zoho Recruit.
| Category | Weight | Thomas International | Zoho Recruit | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 45 | +9 | +1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 43 | 24 | +19 | +3.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 30 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 51 | 50 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 40 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 42 (F) | +6 | +6.1 |
§ 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 | Thomas International | Zoho Recruit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Thomas International has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 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 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Thomas International, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Zoho Recruit, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Thomas International last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zoho Recruit last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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