§ The result
3 points separate Darwinbox and BambooHR.
Under rubric v1.0, Darwinbox and BambooHR finish 3 points apart, 46 to 43, as two ATS-integrated entries. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to BambooHR and Darwinbox, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side Darwinbox holds, headed by Article 11 Technical Documentation, settle the total. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BambooHR 42, Darwinbox 60 — and at a 20% weight it carries 80% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 3 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
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
§ The record
BambooHR and Darwinbox are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Darwinbox is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | BambooHR | Darwinbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2008 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Darwinbox 60
3.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Darwinbox 35
1.1 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Darwinbox 30
0.6 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Darwinbox 55
0.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Darwinbox 57
0.4 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Darwinbox 58
0.3 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -2.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.6 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 BambooHR minus Darwinbox.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Darwinbox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 30 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 35 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 46 (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 | BambooHR | Darwinbox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next