§ The result
Bullhorn leads Recruit CRM by 14 points.
Rubric v1.0 scores the ATS-integrated entries Bullhorn and Recruit CRM at 54 and 40, a gap of 14 points. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of Bullhorn, with 1 level: Bullhorn is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Recruit CRM on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Bullhorn 58, Recruit CRM 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 48% 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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Bullhorn and Recruit CRM are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Bullhorn is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Bullhorn | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bullhorn 58 · Recruit CRM 20
6.8 weighted points to Bullhorn
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bullhorn 62 · Recruit CRM 34
5.6 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bullhorn 60 · Recruit CRM 54
0.9 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bullhorn 35 · Recruit CRM 42
0.8 weighted points to Recruit CRM
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bullhorn 38 · Recruit CRM 34
0.6 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bullhorn 60 · Recruit CRM 58
0.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +13.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.0 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 +13.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 34 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 20 | +38 | +6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 34 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 42 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 40 (F) | +14 | +13.3 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 2 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 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; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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