Ceipal

AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
ATS-integratedSourcing

HireAIScore rates Ceipal 35 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed July 17, 2026. Ceipal ranks 72 of 77 vendors rated in ATS-integrated AI, against a category average of 47. That score is drawn from 20 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Ceipal — 13 with a cited source, 7 recording that nothing was located.

Score breakdown

Ceipal, criterion by criterion

Each rubric criterion is scored out of 100 on the cited evidence, then weighted into the total.

Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.

  1. Article 11 Technical Documentation

    Weight 20% · avg 51

    30

    +6.0

  2. Bias Audit Transparency

    Weight 18% · avg 41

    20

    +3.6

  3. FRIA Support

    Weight 15% · avg 32

    25

    +3.8

  4. Data Governance Disclosure

    Weight 15% · avg 54

    46

    +6.9

  5. Human Oversight Design

    Weight 12% · avg 57

    46

    +5.5

  6. Post-Market Monitoring

    Weight 12% · avg 42

    38

    +4.6

  7. Customer Documentation

    Weight 8% · avg 59

    53

    +4.2

Total weighted score

34.6(rounded to 35 for display)

Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 77 ATS-integrated AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.

Strongest criterion

Customer Documentation

53raw / 100

Contributes 4.2 to the total. 53 against a 59 category average.

Weakest criterion

Bias Audit Transparency

20raw / 100

Contributes 3.6 to the total. 20 against a 41 category average.

Cited evidence

The evidence behind the score

Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence. Open a criterion to see what was found, when, and where.

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Evidence ledger

Items
20
Documentation
9
Public statement
4
Absence
7
With a source URL
13 of 20
Source hostnames
1
Fewest items
2
Bias Audit Transparency

These figures measure how thoroughly Ceipal was reviewed, not how Ceipal performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.

Article 11 Technical Documentation

3 items30

Bias Audit Transparency

2 items20

FRIA Support

2 items25
  • AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026

    No FRIA template, EU AI Act deployer guidance, or Article 27 support material was found anywhere on Ceipal's site.

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  • DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026

    The GDPR page covers data controller/processor responsibilities and SCCs but contains no AI Act or fundamental-rights-assessment content.

    https://www.ceipal.com/legal/gdpr-compliance

Data Governance Disclosure

3 items46
  • DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026

    Ceipal holds SOC 2 Type II, encrypts sensitive data at rest and in transit, runs four annual penetration tests, and hosts on data-center partners audited to SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

    https://www.ceipal.com/legal/security

  • DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026

    GDPR page describes Ceipal's data-processor commitments, customer data ownership/portability, and international-transfer safeguards.

    https://www.ceipal.com/legal/gdpr-compliance

  • AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026

    No disclosure of what data trains the AI, no exclusion lists for protected attributes, and no ISO 42001 certification.

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Human Oversight Design

3 items46

Post-Market Monitoring

3 items38
  • DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026

    Ceipal maintains an internal record of security incidents and runs four annual penetration tests, with a summary report available on request.

    https://www.ceipal.com/legal/security

  • Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026

    Provides a compliance/privacy contact (compliance@ceipal.com) and DPO contact for security and privacy inquiries.

    https://www.ceipal.com/legal/privacy-policy

  • AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026

    No public status page, security.txt/vulnerability-disclosure program, model-update changelog, or continuous monitoring dashboard was found.

    Have a URL that disputes this?

Customer Documentation

4 items53

Editorial notes

Company overview

Ceipal (Ceipal Corp.), founded in 2015 and headquartered in Rochester, New York, is an AI-powered staffing and recruiting platform serving over 100,000 recruiters worldwide, with R&D in Hyderabad, India. It combines an applicant tracking system with vendor management and workforce management, and its AI candidate matching and ranking engine contextualizes each candidate's location, experience, and skills to score and shortlist them on a scale of one to one hundred, delivering ranked results to the recruiter's dashboard across 200+ job boards. Its primary category is ATS with a strong sourcing secondary.

Regulatory exposure

Ceipal's AI scoring and ranking of applicants functions as an Automated Employment Decision Tool under NYC Local Law 144 and would likely qualify as a high-risk employment system under EU AI Act Annex III, creating audit, notice, transparency, and (for EU deployers) fundamental-rights-assessment obligations. Yet Ceipal publishes no bias audit, no AEDT or Local Law 144 guidance, no EU AI Act deployer or FRIA support, and no AI-specific technical documentation or explainability statement; its public assurance posture (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR processor commitments, ISO 27001-audited hosting) addresses information security rather than algorithmic accountability, leaving the substance of AI-hiring compliance to its customers.

Path to a higher score

Ceipal could raise its score meaningfully by commissioning and publicly posting an independent NYC Local Law 144 bias audit (with auditor and date), publishing an AI model/system card and an in-product explainability statement describing how the 1-100 rank is produced, and adding a data-governance disclosure covering training data and excluded protected attributes. Adding EU AI Act deployer guidance and a FRIA template, documenting human-oversight and override controls with audit logs, standing up a public status/security-disclosure channel and model-update changelog, and pursuing ISO 42001 would move it from a security-only posture toward genuine AI-Act and Local-Law-144 readiness.

Regulatory frame

What applies to ATS-integrated AI.

Ranking features are inside EU AI Act Annex III §4 (high-risk) and inside NYC Local Law 144 when they affect NYC-based candidates. Customers should treat the AI surface as a distinct deployer-FRIA scope from the rest of the ATS.

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All ATS-integrated vendorsHow this score is builtAnnex IV section-by-section: what AI hiring vendors must documentWhat makes a defensible NYC LL 144 bias audit

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