§ The result
Indeed leads BambooHR by 7 points.
Indeed scores 50 and BambooHR 43 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. BambooHR takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 6 for Indeed, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (BambooHR 42, Indeed 58) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 42% of the weighted advantage Indeed holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Indeed
Job marketplace whose employer-side AI (the Talent Scout agent, Sourcing Assistant, Smart Screening and candidate matching) sources, ranks and scores candidates from Indeed's profile pool and applicant flow and drafts outreach to them.
§ The record
BambooHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Indeed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Indeed is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | BambooHR | Indeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2008 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Indeed 58
3.2 weighted points to Indeed
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Indeed 38
1.8 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Indeed 63
1.6 weighted points to Indeed
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Indeed 38
0.6 weighted points to Indeed
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Indeed 40
0.5 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Indeed 58
0.3 weighted points to Indeed
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Indeed 64
0.2 weighted points to Indeed
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -7.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -7.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Indeed.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Indeed | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 38 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 63 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 40 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 50 (F) | -7 | -7.1 |
§ 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 | Indeed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 36 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Indeed has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Indeed sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 40 for Indeed, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Indeed last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next