§ The result
Darwinbox leads Pulsifi on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Darwinbox, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 13 points above Pulsifi, filed under Assessment: 46 against 33 under rubric v1.0. Pulsifi is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Darwinbox takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Darwinbox 30 to Pulsifi 25. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Darwinbox 60, Pulsifi 30 — and at a 20% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage Darwinbox holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
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
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Pulsifi 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 Pulsifi is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Darwinbox | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | SG |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · Pulsifi 30
6.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · Pulsifi 40
2.7 weighted points to Darwinbox
18% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · Pulsifi 20
1.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · Pulsifi 46
0.9 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · Pulsifi 28
0.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · Pulsifi 25
0.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +12.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +12.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 30 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 28 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 46 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 33 (F) | +13 | +12.6 |
§ 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 | Darwinbox | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next