§ The result
HiringBranch leads Pulsifi by 19 points.
Under rubric v1.0, HiringBranch opens a 19-point lead on Pulsifi, 52 to 33, with both scored in the Assessment cohort. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of HiringBranch: HiringBranch is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Pulsifi on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HiringBranch 60, Pulsifi 20, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage HiringBranch holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
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
HiringBranch 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 | HiringBranch | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | CA | SG |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiringBranch 60 · Pulsifi 20
7.2 weighted points to HiringBranch
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiringBranch 60 · Pulsifi 30
6.0 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiringBranch 55 · Pulsifi 40
2.3 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiringBranch 35 · Pulsifi 25
1.5 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · Pulsifi 28
1.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · Pulsifi 46
1.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · Pulsifi 55
0.4 weighted points to Pulsifi
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +19 beside that +19.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | Pulsifi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 30 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 20 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 28 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 46 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 33 (F) | +19 | +19.5 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | 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% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 1 | 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 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 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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