§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Pulsifi on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 26 points between Braintrust AIR (Screening) and Pulsifi (Assessment): 59 for Braintrust AIR, 33 for Pulsifi. Braintrust AIR leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Pulsifi leads none. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Braintrust AIR 75, Pulsifi 20, 18% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
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
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Pulsifi under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2018 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Pulsifi 20
9.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Pulsifi 30
5.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Pulsifi 28
4.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Pulsifi 40
2.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Pulsifi 25
1.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Pulsifi 46
1.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Pulsifi 55
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +25.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 25.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +26 beside that +25.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 30 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 20 | +55 | +9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 40 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 28 | +34 | +4.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 46 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 33 (F) | +26 | +25.7 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 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 Braintrust AIR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next