§ The result
Bullhorn leads Adaface by 15 points.
Bullhorn finishes 15 points clear of Adaface under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 39 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Bullhorn: Bullhorn is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Adaface on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Adaface 22, Bullhorn 58) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Bullhorn holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Adaface
Adaface runs chatbot-led 'conversational' skills tests for 500+ roles that score candidates automatically as pass, borderline pass or fail on benchmarked scorecards, backed by webcam, screen and IP proctoring and an AI résumé parser.
Vendor profile
Bullhorn
Bullhorn is a cloud-based applicant tracking system and CRM for staffing and recruiting agencies, with AI features (Bullhorn Copilot/Amplify, automation, and Textkernel-powered search and match) that source, screen, and rank candidates against jobs.
§ The record
Adaface is filed under Assessment AI, Bullhorn 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 and Colorado AI Act. Only Adaface is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Adaface | Bullhorn |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 1999 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Adaface 22 · Bullhorn 58
6.5 weighted points to Bullhorn
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Adaface 38 · Bullhorn 62
4.8 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Adaface 30 · Bullhorn 38
1.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Adaface 52 · Bullhorn 60
1.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Adaface 50 · Bullhorn 60
1.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Adaface 38 · Bullhorn 35
0.4 weighted points to Adaface
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Adaface 58 · Bullhorn 60
0.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Adaface minus Bullhorn.
| Category | Weight | Adaface | Bullhorn | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 62 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 58 | -36 | -6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 54 (F) | -15 | -14.7 |
§ 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 | Adaface | Bullhorn | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Adaface has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Bullhorn has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Adaface, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Adaface last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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