§ The result
Bullhorn leads RecruitBot by 17 points.
Bullhorn finishes 17 points clear of RecruitBot under rubric v1.0 — 54 against 37 — across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Bullhorn: Bullhorn is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and RecruitBot on Post-Market Monitoring. The advantage Bullhorn holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Bullhorn 58, RecruitBot 22, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 37% of the weighted points Bullhorn gains 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
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
§ The record
Bullhorn is filed under ATS-integrated AI, RecruitBot under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bullhorn 58 · RecruitBot 22
6.5 weighted points to Bullhorn
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bullhorn 62 · RecruitBot 33
5.8 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bullhorn 60 · RecruitBot 48
1.8 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bullhorn 38 · RecruitBot 27
1.6 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bullhorn 60 · RecruitBot 50
1.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bullhorn 35 · RecruitBot 40
0.6 weighted points to RecruitBot
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bullhorn 60 · RecruitBot 55
0.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +16.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 33 | +29 | +5.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 22 | +36 | +6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 27 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 48 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 37 (F) | +17 | +16.7 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 6 | 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; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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