§ The result
Harver leads BambooHR by 13 points.
Harver sits 13 points above BambooHR under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 43 — with Harver filed under Assessment and BambooHR under ATS-integrated. BambooHR and Harver each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split Harver holds (headed by Bias Audit Transparency) adds up to more weighted points. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BambooHR 28, Harver 80 — and at an 18% weight it carries 66% of the weighted advantage Harver 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
Harver
Pre-employment assessment suite covering cognitive ability, behavioral, and situational judgement, including the legacy Pymetrics games product.
§ The record
BambooHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Harver under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Harver is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BambooHR | Harver |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2008 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Harver 80
9.4 weighted points to Harver
20% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Harver 65
4.6 weighted points to Harver
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Harver 40
0.5 weighted points to BambooHR
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Harver 60
0.2 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Harver 35
0.1 weighted points to Harver
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Harver 55
0.1 weighted points to BambooHR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -13.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Harver.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Harver | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 65 | -23 | -4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 80 | -52 | -9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 35 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 40 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 56 (F) | -13 | -13.3 |
§ 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 | Harver | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 0 | 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; Harver has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 0 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 10 for Harver, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Harver last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next