§ The result
Bullhorn leads Pin by 14 points.
Bullhorn sits 14 points above Pin under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 40 — with Bullhorn filed under ATS-integrated and Pin under Sourcing. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Bullhorn: Bullhorn is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Pin on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Bullhorn 62, Pin 30) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Bullhorn holds across the 6 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
Pin
Pin is an AI recruiting agent that searches a database of 850M+ candidate profiles, scores and ranks candidates for fit, can automatically screen out non-matches (each with a one-line reason), and runs outreach and interview scheduling.
§ The record
Bullhorn is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Pin under Candidate sourcing 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.
| Record | Bullhorn | Pin |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bullhorn 62 · Pin 30
6.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bullhorn 58 · Pin 35
4.1 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bullhorn 60 · Pin 50
1.5 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bullhorn 38 · Pin 30
1.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bullhorn 60 · Pin 50
1.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bullhorn 35 · Pin 45
1.2 weighted points to Pin
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bullhorn 60 · Pin 55
0.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus Pin.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | Pin | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 30 | +32 | +6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 40 (F) | +14 | +13.6 |
§ 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 | Pin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 5 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 32 | 5 | 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; Pin has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains, and 37 for Pin, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pin last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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