§ The result
BambooHR leads Pulsifi by 10 points.
BambooHR, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 10 points above Pulsifi, filed under Assessment: 43 against 33 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of BambooHR: BambooHR is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Pulsifi on Human Oversight Design. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (BambooHR 56, Pulsifi 40) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (BambooHR 42, Pulsifi 30), the second being 22% of the weighted advantage BambooHR holds across the 6 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
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
§ The record
BambooHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Pulsifi 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 Pulsifi is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BambooHR | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2008 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Pulsifi 30
2.4 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Pulsifi 40
2.4 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Pulsifi 28
1.9 weighted points to BambooHR
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Pulsifi 20
1.4 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Pulsifi 25
1.3 weighted points to BambooHR
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Pulsifi 46
1.3 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Pulsifi 55
0.6 weighted points to Pulsifi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 25 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 40 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 28 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 46 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 33 (F) | +10 | +10.2 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 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; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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