§ The result
Bullhorn leads Testlify by 9 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Bullhorn, filed under ATS-integrated, finishes on 54 and Testlify, filed under Assessment, on 45, 9 points apart. Testlify takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 5 for Bullhorn, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bullhorn 58, Testlify 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage Bullhorn holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Testlify
Testlify is a skills-assessment and AI-interviewing platform that ranks candidates on a scored leaderboard from pre-built or AI-generated tests, with an AI résumé screener, AI-scored video, voice and chat interviews, and AI-assisted proctoring.
§ The record
Bullhorn is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Testlify under Assessment 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. Only Testlify is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bullhorn | Testlify |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bullhorn 58 · Testlify 30
5.0 weighted points to Bullhorn
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bullhorn 62 · Testlify 52
2.0 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bullhorn 35 · Testlify 42
0.8 weighted points to Testlify
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bullhorn 38 · Testlify 33
0.8 weighted points to Bullhorn
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bullhorn 60 · Testlify 55
0.8 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bullhorn 60 · Testlify 55
0.6 weighted points to Bullhorn
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +8.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +8.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus Testlify.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | Testlify | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 30 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 42 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 45 (F) | +9 | +8.3 |
§ 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 | Testlify | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 31 | 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; Testlify has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains, and 36 for Testlify, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Testlify last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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