Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Bullhorn vs Checkr
Bullhorn
Bullhorn is a cloud-based applicant tracking system and CRM for staffing and recruiting agencies, with AI features (Bullhorn Copilot/Amplify, automation, and Textkernel-powered search and match) that source, screen, and rank candidates against jobs.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
Checkr
Checkr is an FCRA-regulated background screening platform that uses machine learning to parse, classify and standardize criminal, employment, education and motor-vehicle records, and to route them through customer-configured adjudication rulesets that flag candidates as eligible, review or escalated for employment decisions.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
Bullhorn and Checkr tie at 54.
Bullhorn, filed under ATS-integrated, and Checkr, filed under Screening, tie at 54 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Bullhorn leads 2 of the 7 criteria and Checkr 5, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bullhorn 58, Checkr 35 — and at an 18% weight it carries 82% of the weighted advantage Bullhorn holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Bullhorn2
- Checkr5
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency58 vs 35
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Bullhorn is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Checkr under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Bullhorn | Checkr |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2014 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight41% of the movement so far
Bullhorn58Checkr354.1 weighted points to Bullhorn
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight59% of the movement so far
Bullhorn35Checkr501.8 weighted points to Checkr
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight75% of the movement so far
Bullhorn62Checkr701.6 weighted points to Checkr
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight84% of the movement so far
Bullhorn38Checkr320.9 weighted points to Bullhorn
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight91% of the movement so far
Bullhorn60Checkr660.7 weighted points to Checkr
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight97% of the movement so far
Bullhorn60Checkr680.6 weighted points to Checkr
- 7
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
Bullhorn60Checkr620.3 weighted points to Checkr
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to 0.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that 0.0.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus Checkr, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | Checkr | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 70 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 32 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 68 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 54F | 54F | - | 0.0 |
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 | Bullhorn | Checkr | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Bullhorn has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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