Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Bullhorn vs Gem
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
Gem
Gem is an AI-first recruiting platform combining a talent CRM, AI sourcing and outreach automation, candidate engagement, and a newer applicant tracking system with AI-powered application review and ranking.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
The result
1 point separates Gem and Bullhorn.
Gem (Sourcing) edges Bullhorn (ATS-integrated) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 55 to 54. Bullhorn takes 3 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 4 for Gem, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency, at 18%, is the heaviest weighted swing and goes to Gem (Bullhorn 58, Gem 66), 46% of the weighted advantage it holds, while the widest raw gap is Post-Market Monitoring, Bullhorn 35 to Gem 47.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Bullhorn3
- Gem4
- Widest raw gap
- Post-Market Monitoring35 vs 47
- 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, Gem under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Bullhorn | Gem |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2017 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight30% of the movement so far
Bullhorn58Gem661.4 weighted points to Gem
- 2
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight59% of the movement so far
Bullhorn35Gem471.4 weighted points to Gem
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight76% of the movement so far
Bullhorn62Gem580.8 weighted points to Bullhorn
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight85% of the movement so far
Bullhorn38Gem350.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
- 5
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight94% of the movement so far
Bullhorn60Gem570.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight98% of the movement so far
Bullhorn60Gem620.2 weighted points to Gem
- 7
Human Oversight Design
12% weight100% of the movement so far
Bullhorn60Gem610.1 weighted points to Gem
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus Gem, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | Gem | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 57 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 61 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 47 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 54F | 55F | -1 | -1.5 |
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 | Bullhorn | Gem | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 19 | 2 | Audit reportSources 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; Gem has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Gem sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains, and 21 for Gem, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Gem last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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