§ The result
BambooHR leads Alooba by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, BambooHR, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 43 and Alooba, filed under Assessment, on 38, 5 points apart. Alooba takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 6 for BambooHR, whose share includes Data Governance Disclosure. Even Data Governance Disclosure, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Alooba 45, BambooHR 56, 15% weight), is only 31% of the weighted advantage BambooHR builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Alooba
Alooba sells online skills assessments (auto-graded SQL, Python/R, multiple-choice and data-analysis tests, plus manually graded free-response and one-way video questions) that employers use to screen, benchmark and optionally auto-reject job candidates.
Vendor profile
BambooHR
A cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized businesses combining an HRIS and applicant tracking with generative AI features such as AI-drafted job descriptions and a natural-language HR data assistant.
§ The record
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, BambooHR under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Alooba is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alooba | BambooHR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · BambooHR 56
1.6 weighted points to BambooHR
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · BambooHR 28
1.1 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · BambooHR 44
1.0 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · BambooHR 34
0.9 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · BambooHR 50
0.6 weighted points to Alooba
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · BambooHR 42
0.4 weighted points to BambooHR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · BambooHR 62
0.3 weighted points to BambooHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus BambooHR.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | BambooHR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 28 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 34 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 56 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 44 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 43 (F) | -5 | -4.7 |
§ 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 | Alooba | BambooHR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Alooba has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alooba sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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