§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Pin on all 7 criteria.
The Sourcing cohort pairing of Eightfold AI and Pin comes out 64 (D) to 40 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 24-point lead for Eightfold AI. Eightfold AI takes all 7 criteria and Pin none of them; the nearest contest is Post-Market Monitoring, Eightfold AI 50 to Pin 45. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Eightfold AI 85, Pin 35) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Eightfold AI 75, Pin 30), the second being 38% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
Vendor profile
Pin
Pin is an AI recruiting agent that searches a database of 850M+ candidate profiles, scores and ranks candidates for fit, can automatically screen out non-matches (each with a one-line reason), and runs outreach and interview scheduling.
§ The record
Eightfold AI and Pin are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only Pin is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Eightfold AI | Pin |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Eightfold AI 75 · Pin 30
9.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Eightfold AI 85 · Pin 35
9.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Eightfold AI 45 · Pin 30
2.3 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Eightfold AI 60 · Pin 50
1.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Eightfold AI 60 · Pin 50
1.2 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Eightfold AI 50 · Pin 45
0.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Eightfold AI 60 · Pin 55
0.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +23.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 23.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +24 beside that +23.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Eightfold AI minus Pin.
| Category | Weight | Eightfold AI | Pin | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 75 | 30 | +45 | +9.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 35 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 30 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 40 (F) | +24 | +23.9 |
§ 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 | Eightfold AI | Pin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | — | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 32 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Pin has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Eightfold AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 37 for Pin, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pin last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next