§ The result
Jack & Jill leads BambooHR by 6 points.
Jack & Jill scores 49 and BambooHR 43 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. BambooHR takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 4 for Jack & Jill, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (BambooHR 28, Jack & Jill 62) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 77% of the weighted advantage Jack & Jill holds across the 4 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
Jack & Jill
Jack & Jill is a London AI recruiting marketplace. Its free career agent, Jack, interviews and profiles candidates, and its employer-side AI recruiter, Jill, turns a role brief into a scoring rubric, ranks candidates from Jack's network (and optionally public profiles) with a percentage match, and arranges introductions only when both sides agree.
§ The record
BambooHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Jack & Jill 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 Jack & Jill is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | BambooHR | Jack & Jill |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2008 | 2025 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Jack & Jill 62
6.1 weighted points to Jack & Jill
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Jack & Jill 48
1.2 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Jack & Jill 58
1.0 weighted points to Jack & Jill
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Jack & Jill 28
0.9 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Jack & Jill 48
0.5 weighted points to Jack & Jill
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Jack & Jill 56
0.5 weighted points to BambooHR
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Jack & Jill 44
0.4 weighted points to Jack & Jill
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Jack & Jill.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Jack & Jill | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 44 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 62 | -34 | -6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 28 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 48 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 48 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 49 (F) | -6 | -5.4 |
§ 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 | Jack & Jill | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources 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; Jack & Jill has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Jack & Jill sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 36 for Jack & Jill, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Jack & Jill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next