§ The result
Emmersion leads Pulsifi by 11 points.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Assessment entries Emmersion and Pulsifi at 44 and 33, a gap of 11 points. Emmersion leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Pulsifi leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Emmersion 57, Pulsifi 30) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 47% of the weighted advantage Emmersion holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
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
Emmersion and Pulsifi are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Emmersion | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Emmersion 57 · Pulsifi 30
5.4 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emmersion 50 · Pulsifi 40
1.5 weighted points to Emmersion
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emmersion 28 · Pulsifi 20
1.4 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emmersion 38 · Pulsifi 28
1.2 weighted points to Emmersion
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emmersion 60 · Pulsifi 46
1.1 weighted points to Emmersion
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emmersion 30 · Pulsifi 25
0.8 weighted points to Emmersion
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emmersion 53 · Pulsifi 55
0.2 weighted points to Pulsifi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +11.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emmersion minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Emmersion | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 57 | 30 | +27 | +5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 20 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 55 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 28 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 46 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 33 (F) | +11 | +11.2 |
§ 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 | Emmersion | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emmersion sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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