§ The result
BrightHire leads BambooHR by 8 points.
BrightHire scores 51 and BambooHR 43 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. BrightHire leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while BambooHR leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BambooHR 28, BrightHire 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
§ The record
BambooHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, BrightHire under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only BrightHire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BambooHR | BrightHire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2008 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · BrightHire 50
4.0 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · BrightHire 52
2.0 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · BrightHire 60
1.2 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · BrightHire 60
0.6 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · BrightHire 36
0.3 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · BrightHire 42
0.2 weighted points to BambooHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -7.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.3 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 -7.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus BrightHire.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | BrightHire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 52 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 36 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 42 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 51 (F) | -8 | -7.8 |
§ 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 | BambooHR | BrightHire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next