§ The result
3 points separate Arctic Shores and BambooHR.
Arctic Shores (Assessment) edges BambooHR (ATS-integrated) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 43. Arctic Shores leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while BambooHR leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. Post-Market Monitoring is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to BambooHR — Arctic Shores 30, BambooHR 44, on a 12% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage BambooHR holds across the 1 criterion on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Arctic Shores
Arctic Shores sells a task-based psychometric assessment platform ("Una") that scores candidates on behaviour captured during short interactive tasks - covering personality, workplace intelligence and learning agility - rather than self-report questionnaires or CV review.
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
Arctic Shores 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 Arctic Shores is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arctic Shores | BambooHR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2008 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arctic Shores 30 · BambooHR 44
1.7 weighted points to BambooHR
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arctic Shores 50 · BambooHR 42
1.6 weighted points to Arctic Shores
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arctic Shores 35 · BambooHR 28
1.3 weighted points to Arctic Shores
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arctic Shores 56 · BambooHR 50
0.7 weighted points to Arctic Shores
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arctic Shores 64 · BambooHR 62
0.2 weighted points to Arctic Shores
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arctic Shores 35 · BambooHR 34
0.1 weighted points to Arctic Shores
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arctic Shores 57 · BambooHR 56
0.1 weighted points to Arctic Shores
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arctic Shores minus BambooHR.
| Category | Weight | Arctic Shores | BambooHR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 34 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 44 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 43 (F) | +3 | +2.4 |
§ 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 | Arctic Shores | BambooHR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Arctic Shores has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Arctic Shores, across 1 distinct source domain, and 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arctic Shores last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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