§ The result
Bullhorn leads Emmersion by 10 points.
Bullhorn sits 10 points above Emmersion under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 44 — with Bullhorn filed under ATS-integrated and Emmersion under Assessment. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Bullhorn, with 1 level: Bullhorn is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Emmersion on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Bullhorn 58, Emmersion 28) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 54% of the weighted advantage Bullhorn holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
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.
Vendor profile
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
§ The record
Bullhorn is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Emmersion under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Emmersion is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bullhorn | Emmersion |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bullhorn 58 · Emmersion 28
5.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bullhorn 60 · Emmersion 50
1.5 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bullhorn 38 · Emmersion 30
1.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
20% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bullhorn 62 · Emmersion 57
1.0 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bullhorn 60 · Emmersion 53
0.8 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bullhorn 35 · Emmersion 38
0.4 weighted points to Emmersion
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +9.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus Emmersion.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | Emmersion | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 57 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 28 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 53 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 44 (F) | +10 | +9.6 |
§ 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 | Emmersion | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Bullhorn has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emmersion sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains, and 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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