Entelo

Name: Entelo
Brand: Entelo

Entelo is an AI-powered talent sourcing and diversity-recruiting platform that aggregates hundreds of millions of public candidate profiles and applies predictive machine-learning models to score, rank, and surface (including underrepresented) candidates for recruiters.

Sourcing ATS-integrated Screening

HireAIScore rates Entelo 33 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed June 7, 2026. Entelo ranks 80 of 86 vendors rated in Candidate sourcing AI, against a category average of 46. That score is drawn from 16 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Entelo — 9 with a cited source, 8 recording that nothing was located.

Score breakdown

Entelo, 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.

Article 11 Technical Documentation
Weight 20% · category avg 48
30
+6.0
Bias Audit Transparency
Weight 18% · category avg 40
20
+3.6
FRIA Support
Weight 15% · category avg 31
25
+3.8
Data Governance Disclosure
Weight 15% · category avg 53
45
+6.8
Human Oversight Design
Weight 12% · category avg 56
42
+5.0
Post-Market Monitoring
Weight 12% · category avg 40
35
+4.2
Customer Documentation
Weight 8% · category avg 57
40
+3.2

Total weighted score

32.5(rounded to 33 for display)

Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 86 Candidate sourcing AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.

Strongest criterion

Data Governance Disclosure

45raw / 100

Contributes 6.8 to the total. 45 against a 53 category average.

Weakest criterion

Bias Audit Transparency

20raw / 100

Contributes 3.6 to the total. 20 against a 40 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: 16
Documentation: 5
Public statement: 3
Absence: 8
With a source URL: 9 of 16
Source hostnames: 4
Fewest items: 1; FRIA Support

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

Article 11 Technical Documentation

2 items30

Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
2018 press release describes the 'Unbiased Sourcing Mode' feature that anonymizes name, photo, pronouns, school, gaps, experience and graduation dates, but discloses no AI/ML methodology or model documentation.
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/08/08/1549063/0/en/Entelo-Encourages-Diversity-and-Inclusion-in-Hiring-Practices-Adding-New-Unbiased-Sourcing-Mode-to-Its-Platform.html
AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No model card, system card, explainability statement, technical documentation pack, AI policy, or ISO 42001 was found on rival-hr.com, home.entelo.com, or via web search for Entelo/Rival.
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Bias Audit Transparency

3 items20

AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
The ACLU crowd-sourced LL 144 bias-audit tracker (40+ vendors incl. HireVue, pymetrics, Eightfold) does not list Entelo or Rival.
https://github.com/aclu-national/tracking-ll144-bias-audits
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Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Rival Recruit page claims AI scoring 'focuses on skills and qualifications rather than demographic factors' and 'includes bias detection features' but cites no independent audit or impact-ratio data.
https://rival-hr.com/platform/rival-recruit/
AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No published bias audit summary, impact-ratio table, or third-party auditor (BABL AI, Holistic AI, Warden AI, DCI, ORCAA) found for Entelo or Rival in web searches.
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FRIA Support

1 item25

AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No FRIA template, Article 27 deployer guidance, or EU AI Act high-risk deployer documentation was found on rival-hr.com, the security/privacy page, or via search for Entelo/Rival.
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Data Governance Disclosure

2 items45

DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Security & Privacy page states annual SOC 2 audits, references the ISO 27000 family and NIST/CIS, EU-U.S./UK/Swiss Data Privacy Framework participation, and GDPR processor compliance.
https://rival-hr.com/security-privacy/
AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No disclosure of what data trains the predictive scoring models, no exclusion lists, and no AI-specific data-governance statement; sourcing aggregates ~500M+ public profiles with no documented lawful-basis or candidate opt-out for EU data.
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Human Oversight Design

2 items42

Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Diversity product is recruiter-operated: users select diversity filters and an 'Unbiased mode' before searching, implying a human-in-control sourcing workflow rather than automated decisions.
https://rival-hr.com/diversity
AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No documented human-override mechanism, in-interface explanation of AI scores, per-jurisdiction compliance toggles, or audit-logging was found on the product or compliance pages.
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Post-Market Monitoring

3 items35

DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Public Rival status page shows per-service availability, 90-day uptime history, and email/SMS/Slack/Teams/webhook/RSS incident subscriptions.
https://status.rival-hr.com/
DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Security page references monthly vulnerability scans and annual penetration testing, but covers infrastructure security rather than AI model performance or bias monitoring.
https://rival-hr.com/security-privacy/
AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No AI model-update changelog, AI/bias incident-reporting channel, or continuous fairness-monitoring dashboard was found.
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Customer Documentation

3 items40

DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Entelo/Rival product landing page describes the sourcing/ATS platform and links to Security & Privacy, Privacy Policy, Terms, and Status pages.
https://rival-hr.com/entelo-recruit/
DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Public diversity product page documents one-click diversity filters, unbiased mode, and inclusive-language alerts.
https://rival-hr.com/diversity
AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No deployer/compliance guidance, NYC LL 144 candidate-notice templates, EU AI Act guidance, FAQ on AEDT obligations, or publicly posted DPA was found.
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Editorial notes

Company overview

Entelo, founded in 2011 by Jon Bischke and John McGrath and headquartered in San Francisco, is an AI talent-sourcing and diversity-recruiting platform that mines public web and social profiles, applies predictive 'recruitability' scoring, and offers diversity filters (gender, race, ethnicity, veteran status) plus an 'Unbiased Sourcing Mode' that anonymizes bias-prone profile attributes. Its assets were acquired by SilkRoad Technology in 2022 and rebranded under Rival; the entelo.com domain now redirects to rival-hr.com and the product is marketed as Rival Recruit with a 700M+ passive-candidate database. Pricing is undisclosed but positioned mid-market/enterprise for talent-acquisition teams.

Regulatory exposure

Entelo/Rival sits squarely in the EU AI Act high-risk band: AI candidate scoring and ranking for recruitment is Annex III high-risk, and its predictive 'likelihood to move' and demographic diversity filtering raise both bias and data-provenance questions under NYC LL 144, Illinois, and Colorado SB 205. Because the tool ranks and scores candidates, it can meet the AEDT definition under NYC LL 144, yet no public bias-audit summary exists (Entelo/Rival does not appear in the ACLU's LL 144 tracker). The diversity product explicitly infers race/ethnicity/gender, heightening data-governance and disparate-impact scrutiny, while sourcing from aggregated public profiles raises GDPR lawful-basis concerns for EU candidates.

Path to a higher score

Entelo/Rival could materially raise its score by commissioning and publicly posting an independent NYC LL 144 bias audit (BABL AI, Holistic AI, Warden AI, etc.) with auditor and date, and publishing a model/system card or AI policy describing how its scoring and unbiased-mode features work. Concrete wins: an explicit deployer-facing compliance pack (LL 144 notice templates, EU AI Act Article 27 FRIA guidance, DPAs), a documented data-exclusion and training-data statement, ISO 42001 certification, and in-product explainability plus documented human-override/audit-log controls. Surfacing a security/AI-incident contact and an AI changelog would lift post-market-monitoring evidence beyond the current generic status page.

Regulatory frame

What applies to candidate sourcing AI.

Ranking outputs are inside Annex III §4 when they influence hiring decisions. GDPR Article 22 (automated decision-making) and the GDPR rights around profiling apply independently for EU candidates.

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All sourcing vendors How this score is built Annex IV section-by-section: what AI hiring vendors must document What makes a defensible NYC LL 144 bias audit

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Ranked 80 of 86 by weighted total under rubric v1.0. The ordering is arithmetic on the rubric and carries no view on which tool suits a given hiring process.

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