§ The result
BrightHire leads Pulsifi on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, BrightHire (Screening) opens an 18-point lead on Pulsifi (Assessment), 51 to 33. Pulsifi leads none of the 7 criteria, and BrightHire is ahead on 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. The advantage BrightHire holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (BrightHire 50, Pulsifi 20, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 30% of the weighted points BrightHire gains across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
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
BrightHire 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 | BrightHire | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2019 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Pulsifi 20
5.4 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Pulsifi 30
4.4 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Pulsifi 40
3.0 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Pulsifi 28
1.7 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Pulsifi 25
1.6 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Pulsifi 46
1.3 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Pulsifi 55
0.6 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 20 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 25 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 28 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 46 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 33 (F) | +18 | +18.0 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 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 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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