§ The result
Brainner leads Pulsifi by 13 points.
Brainner sits 13 points above Pulsifi under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 33 — with Brainner filed under Screening and Pulsifi under Assessment. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Brainner: Brainner is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Pulsifi on Human Oversight Design. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Brainner 52, Pulsifi 30, 20% weight), is only 31% of the weighted advantage Brainner builds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
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
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Pulsifi under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Pulsifi is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Pulsifi 30
4.4 weighted points to Brainner
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Pulsifi 20
4.0 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Pulsifi 28
2.0 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Pulsifi 40
1.9 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Pulsifi 46
1.0 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Pulsifi 25
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 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 +13.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.7 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 +13.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 40 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 28 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 46 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 33 (F) | +13 | +13.5 |
§ 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 | Brainner | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next