§ The result
Bullhorn leads Avionté by 9 points.
Inside the ATS-integrated cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Bullhorn on 54 and Avionté on 45, 9 points apart. Avionté takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 4 for Bullhorn, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Avionté 22, Bullhorn 58 — and at an 18% weight it carries 64% of the weighted advantage Bullhorn holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Avionté
AviontéBOLD is a front- and back-office platform for staffing agencies (ATS/CRM, onboarding, payroll and billing): its AI Matching Agent ranks candidates already in an agency's database for each job, and its Claude-powered PIXEL chatbot pre-screens and scores applicants.
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
Avionté and Bullhorn are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Sourcing and Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Avionté | Bullhorn |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2005 | 1999 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avionté 22 · Bullhorn 58
6.5 weighted points to Bullhorn
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avionté 50 · Bullhorn 62
2.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avionté 45 · Bullhorn 35
1.2 weighted points to Avionté
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avionté 55 · Bullhorn 60
0.8 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avionté 35 · Bullhorn 38
0.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avionté 62 · Bullhorn 60
0.2 weighted points to Avionté
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -8.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -8.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avionté minus Bullhorn.
| Category | Weight | Avionté | Bullhorn | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 58 | -36 | -6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 54 (F) | -9 | -8.7 |
§ 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 | Avionté | Bullhorn | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Avionté has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 6 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 Avionté sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Avionté, across 4 distinct source domains, and 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avionté last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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