§ The result
Test Partnership leads BambooHR by 7 points.
Test Partnership scores 50 and BambooHR 43 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Test Partnership, with 1 level: Test Partnership is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and BambooHR on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (BambooHR 28, Test Partnership 48) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Test Partnership holds across the 5 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
Test Partnership
Test Partnership publishes computer-adaptive aptitude tests, the TPAQ personality questionnaire and MindmetriQ game-based cognitive assessments. Employers review, rank and export the resulting norm-referenced percentile and sten scores in its dashboard, through its API or in integrated ATSs.
§ The record
BambooHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Test Partnership 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 Test Partnership is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BambooHR | Test Partnership |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2008 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Test Partnership 48
3.6 weighted points to Test Partnership
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Test Partnership 57
3.0 weighted points to Test Partnership
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Test Partnership 33
1.3 weighted points to BambooHR
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Test Partnership 58
1.0 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Test Partnership 36
0.3 weighted points to Test Partnership
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Test Partnership 57
0.1 weighted points to Test Partnership
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.3 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 -6.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Test Partnership.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Test Partnership | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 57 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 48 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 36 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 57 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 33 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 50 (F) | -7 | -6.7 |
§ 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 | Test Partnership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 6 | 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; Test Partnership has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Test Partnership sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Test Partnership, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Test Partnership last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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