§ The result
Bullhorn leads Arctic Shores by 8 points.
Bullhorn scores 54 and Arctic Shores 46 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Bullhorn leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Arctic Shores leads 1, including Customer Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Arctic Shores 35, Bullhorn 58 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Bullhorn holds across the 6 criteria 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
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
Arctic Shores 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 Arctic Shores is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Arctic Shores | Bullhorn |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 1999 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arctic Shores 35 · Bullhorn 58
4.1 weighted points to Bullhorn
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arctic Shores 50 · Bullhorn 62
2.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arctic Shores 30 · Bullhorn 35
0.6 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arctic Shores 56 · Bullhorn 60
0.5 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Arctic Shores 35 · Bullhorn 38
0.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arctic Shores 57 · Bullhorn 60
0.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arctic Shores 64 · Bullhorn 60
0.3 weighted points to Arctic Shores
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -8.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arctic Shores minus Bullhorn.
| Category | Weight | Arctic Shores | Bullhorn | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 58 | -23 | -4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 60 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 54 (F) | -8 | -8.2 |
§ 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 | Bullhorn | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 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% | 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 | 1 | 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 | Audit reportSources 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; 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 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Arctic Shores, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arctic Shores last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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