§ The result
ADP leads Pulsifi on 6 of the 7 criteria.
ADP finishes 15 points clear of Pulsifi under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 33 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. ADP leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Pulsifi is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 ADP leads is FRIA Support, ADP 28 to Pulsifi 25. The advantage ADP holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (ADP 46, Pulsifi 20, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 31% of the weighted points ADP gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
§ The record
ADP is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Pulsifi under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Pulsifi is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ADP | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 1949 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · Pulsifi 20
4.7 weighted points to ADP
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · Pulsifi 30
4.6 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · Pulsifi 40
2.5 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · Pulsifi 28
2.0 weighted points to ADP
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · Pulsifi 46
1.0 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · Pulsifi 25
0.4 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.3 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 +15.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 30 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 20 | +26 | +4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 40 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 28 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 46 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 33 (F) | +15 | +15.3 |
§ 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 | ADP | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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