Recruitee
HireAIScore rates Recruitee 42 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed July 17, 2026. Recruitee ranks 56 of 77 vendors rated in ATS-integrated AI, against a category average of 47. That score is drawn from 21 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Recruitee — 14 with a cited source, 7 recording that nothing was located.
Score breakdown
Recruitee, 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 51
42
+8.4
Bias Audit Transparency
Weight 18% · category avg 41
30
+5.4
FRIA Support
Weight 15% · category avg 32
27
+4.0
Data Governance Disclosure
Weight 15% · category avg 54
52
+7.8
Human Oversight Design
Weight 12% · category avg 57
58
+7.0
Post-Market Monitoring
Weight 12% · category avg 42
40
+4.8
Customer Documentation
Weight 8% · category avg 59
58
+4.6
Total weighted score
42.0(rounded to 42 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
58raw / 100
Contributes 4.6 to the total. 58 against a 59 category average.
Weakest criterion
FRIA Support
27raw / 100
Contributes 4.0 to the total. 27 against a 32 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.
Download diligence recordEvidence ledger
- Items
- 21
- Documentation
- 12
- Public statement
- 2
- Absence
- 7
- With a source URL
- 14 of 21
- Source hostnames
- 2
- Fewest items
- 2
- Bias Audit Transparency
These figures measure how thoroughly Recruitee was reviewed, not how Recruitee performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
3 items42
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Recruitee's AI Statement sets out transparency, fairness, data-use and human-oversight principles, but it is a policy statement rather than a model card or Article 11 technical pack.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Product page describes the AI screening assistant displaying "exactly how candidates meet each requirement," a limited explainability claim, but provides no underlying technical documentation.
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No model cards, system cards, explainability whitepapers, or ISO 42001 found across the AI Statement, compliance, security-privacy, and ISO 27001 pages.
Bias Audit Transparency
2 items30
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
States they "design our AI systems to reduce the risk of biased, discriminatory, or unfair outcomes" while conceding no system can guarantee absolute fairness, but attaches no audit.
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No NYC Local Law 144 bias-audit summary and no independent audit (BABL AI, Warden AI, Holistic AI, ORCAA, DCI) found on recruitee.com or its help center.
FRIA Support
2 items27
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No EU AI Act Article 27 FRIA template or fundamental-rights-impact-assessment guidance found on the compliance, AI Statement, or security-privacy pages.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Compliance page offers GDPR, DPA and sub-processor framework and EEO tooling but contains no EU AI Act deployer-obligation guidance for high-risk hiring AI.
Data Governance Disclosure
4 items52
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Explicitly states "We do not use your data to train AI models or for any secondary purposes beyond providing the Services, unless explicitly stated."
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
ISO 27001 scope explicitly covers the Recruitee ATS, a SOC 2 (ISAE 3402) Type II report is available on request, and all data is hosted EU-only (Google Cloud Frankfurt/Berlin, AWS Frankfurt/Ireland).
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
GDPR is built into the product (right-to-erasure workflows, subject-access data export) and agency data is covered by a standard DPA and sub-processor framework.
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No detailed disclosure of what data the AI models process or exclude, no exclusion list, and no ISO 42001.
Human Oversight Design
3 items58
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
States all hiring decisions remain with the recruiter and hiring manager, positions AI as a "decision-support tool, not a decision-making tool," keeps AI outputs visible and editable alongside candidate data, and shows how candidates meet each defined requirement.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
AI features are "intended to assist, not replace, human judgment"; users can enable or disable AI-assisted features at any time and AI-generated content is labeled to distinguish it from human-created content.
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No per-jurisdiction oversight toggles, documented override/audit-log controls for AI-influenced decisions, or letter-grade/scored explainability.
Post-Market Monitoring
3 items40
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Formal Vulnerability Disclosure Program with a security contact (vulnerabilities@recruitee.com) and a commitment to respond within two weeks and give status updates; no bug bounty offered.
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
States security measures are annually audited to SOC 2 Type II and that regular reviews address evolving risks.
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No public status/continuous-monitoring dashboard and no AI model-update changelog found.
Customer Documentation
4 items58
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Detailed public product pages describe each AI feature and GDPR consent-management and data-deletion automation.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Security & privacy hub links to Terms, the DPA, SLA, Privacy Policy, downloadable security documentation, and the Vulnerability Disclosure Program.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Compliance page covers GDPR, EEO tooling, ISO 27001 / SOC 2 Type II, and the DPA and sub-processor framework.
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No NYC Local Law 144 or EU AI Act deployer guidance, FAQ, or bias-audit summary for customers.
Editorial notes
Company overview
Recruitee is a collaborative applicant tracking system founded in 2015 in Amsterdam by Perry Oostdam and Pawel Smoczyk. It now operates as "Tellent Recruitee," a product unit of the Tellent group formed after Recruitee's 2021 merger with Sympa and later acquisitions of Javelo and kiwiHR. Aimed mainly at SMB and mid-market hiring teams, it provides career sites, job posting, candidate pipelines, and collaboration tools, layered with AI-assisted features: job-description generation and translation, an AI screening assistant that evaluates applications against clear team-defined criteria, a matching assistant that resurfaces existing candidates from the database, AI evaluation summaries that consolidate team feedback, and an AI writer for candidate emails.
Regulatory exposure
Recruitee's AI screening, candidate matching/rediscovery, and evaluation features fall within Annex III recruitment-and-selection use under the EU AI Act (high-risk obligations from 2 August 2026) and can constitute an AEDT under NYC Local Law 144 when used to screen or rank candidates. Recruitee publishes a plain-language AI Statement and solid security/privacy documentation (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II on request, EU-only data residency, a DPA and sub-processor framework, GDPR automation) and commits not to train AI models on customer data. However, it publishes no bias audit, no EU AI Act or FRIA deployer guidance, and no model cards or Article 11 technical documentation, so deployers must request compliance evidence directly.
Path to a higher score
Recruitee could raise its score by commissioning and publicly posting an independent bias audit (NYC LL 144 style, e.g., BABL AI / Warden AI / Holistic AI) and repeating it annually; publishing model/system cards and instructions-for-use for its screening and matching features; adding explicit EU AI Act deployer guidance plus a FRIA template; and pursuing ISO 42001. Documenting its AI data-exclusion and (non-)training practices in detail and surfacing a public status/monitoring page would further lift the data-governance and post-market-monitoring categories.
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.
Compare
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Ranking
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