§ The result
ZipRecruiter leads Pulsifi on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, ZipRecruiter, filed under Sourcing, finishes on 40 and Pulsifi, filed under Assessment, on 33, 7 points apart. Pulsifi is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: ZipRecruiter takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Pulsifi 25 to ZipRecruiter 27. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Pulsifi 40, ZipRecruiter 52) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Pulsifi 30, ZipRecruiter 40), the second being 29% of the weighted advantage ZipRecruiter holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace whose AI matching engine sends employers' job postings out, alerts matched job seekers and invites them to apply, and labels and ranks applicants (for example as 'Great Match') in the employer's candidate dashboard.
§ The record
Pulsifi is filed under Assessment AI, ZipRecruiter under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Pulsifi is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Pulsifi | ZipRecruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Pulsifi 30 · ZipRecruiter 40
2.0 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
15% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Pulsifi 40 · ZipRecruiter 52
1.8 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Pulsifi 28 · ZipRecruiter 40
1.4 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
18% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Pulsifi 20 · ZipRecruiter 24
0.7 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Pulsifi 46 · ZipRecruiter 54
0.6 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Pulsifi 25 · ZipRecruiter 27
0.3 weighted points to ZipRecruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Pulsifi minus ZipRecruiter.
| Category | Weight | Pulsifi | ZipRecruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 24 | -4 | -0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 27 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 46 | 54 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 40 (F) | -7 | -6.9 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | ZipRecruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 26 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; ZipRecruiter has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for ZipRecruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for ZipRecruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- ZipRecruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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