§ The result
Bullhorn leads Recruiterflow on all 7 criteria.
The ATS-integrated cohort pairing of Bullhorn and Recruiterflow comes out 54 to 36 under rubric v1.0, an 18-point lead for Bullhorn. Bullhorn takes all 7 criteria and Recruiterflow none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Bullhorn 60 to Recruiterflow 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Bullhorn 58, Recruiterflow 18) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage Bullhorn holds across the 7 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
Recruiterflow
Recruiterflow is an ATS and CRM for recruiting agencies and executive search firms. Its AIRA AI layer ranks candidates already in a firm's database against each job with an explainable 0–100 Criteria Score (AIRA Matchmaker, shown as the 'AI Matches' card), and adds natural-language candidate search, external profile sourcing and an AI call notetaker that fills in interview scorecards.
§ The record
Bullhorn and Recruiterflow 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 | Recruiterflow |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bullhorn 58 · Recruiterflow 18
7.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bullhorn 62 · Recruiterflow 33
5.8 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bullhorn 60 · Recruiterflow 44
2.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bullhorn 38 · Recruiterflow 30
1.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bullhorn 60 · Recruiterflow 56
0.3 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bullhorn 60 · Recruiterflow 58
0.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bullhorn 35 · Recruiterflow 33
0.2 weighted points to Bullhorn
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +17.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus Recruiterflow.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | Recruiterflow | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 33 | +29 | +5.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 18 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 44 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 33 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 36 (F) | +18 | +17.4 |
§ 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 | Recruiterflow | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 domain |
Bullhorn has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Recruiterflow has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
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 Recruiterflow, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruiterflow last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next