§ The result
Alva Labs leads Bullhorn on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Alva Labs scores 61 (D) and Bullhorn 54 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Alva Labs leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Bullhorn is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Alva Labs leads is Human Oversight Design, Alva Labs 63 to Bullhorn 60. Alva Labs takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Alva Labs 78, Bullhorn 62), which is 43% of the weighted advantage Alva Labs holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, Alva Labs 52 to Bullhorn 35.
Vendor profile
Alva Labs
Alva Labs sells a science-backed hiring platform whose core is a suite of proprietary psychometric assessments - an adaptive logic (general mental ability) test, a Five-Factor Model personality test, and coding tests - wrapped in candidate management, CV screening, and structured-interview tooling.
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
Alva Labs 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, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Alva Labs is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alva Labs | Bullhorn |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 1999 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alva Labs 78 · Bullhorn 62
3.2 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alva Labs 52 · Bullhorn 35
2.0 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alva Labs 68 · Bullhorn 60
1.2 weighted points to Alva Labs
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alva Labs 68 · Bullhorn 60
0.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alva Labs 63 · Bullhorn 60
0.4 weighted points to Alva Labs
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +7.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus Bullhorn.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | Bullhorn | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 62 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 54 (F) | +7 | +7.4 |
§ 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 | Alva Labs | Bullhorn | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Alva Labs has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Bullhorn has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alva Labs 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: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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