§ The result
2 points separate Ceipal and Pulsifi.
Ceipal holds a 2-point edge over Pulsifi under rubric v1.0, 35 to 33, across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Ceipal leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Pulsifi leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 3 are level. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ceipal 38, Pulsifi 28 — and at a 12% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Ceipal holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
Vendor profile
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
§ The record
Ceipal is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Pulsifi under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Pulsifi is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ceipal | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Pulsifi 28
1.2 weighted points to Ceipal
12% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Pulsifi 55
1.1 weighted points to Pulsifi
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Pulsifi 40
0.9 weighted points to Ceipal
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Pulsifi 46
0.6 weighted points to Ceipal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +1.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 20 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 40 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 55 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 46 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 33 (F) | +2 | +1.6 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | 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% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next