Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
HireAIScore rates Pinpoint 57 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed July 17, 2026. Pinpoint ranks 6 of 47 vendors rated in ATS-integrated AI, against a category average of 49. That score is drawn from 20 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Pinpoint — 18 with a cited source, 2 recording that nothing was located.
§ 01 - Company facts
- Founded
- 2017
- Headquarters
- Jersey · JE
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Market side
- Employer-side (AEDT)
- Categories
- ATS-integratedScreeningSourcing
- Website
- pinpointhq.com
These are company details, not findings. They are editable by a verified representative and carry no weight in the score, which is built only from the cited evidence below.
§ 02 - Score breakdown
§ Score breakdown
Category scoring
Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.
- 01
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Weight 20%72
+14.4 · category avg 53
- 02
Bias Audit Transparency
Weight 18%42
+7.6 · category avg 45
- 03
FRIA Support
Weight 15%38
+5.7 · category avg 33
- 04
Data Governance Disclosure
Weight 15%68
+10.2 · category avg 56
- 05
Human Oversight Design
Weight 12%64
+7.7 · category avg 57
- 06
Post-Market Monitoring
Weight 12%52
+6.2 · category avg 42
- 07
Customer Documentation
Weight 8%66
+5.3 · category avg 59
Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 47 ATS-integrated AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.
§ 03 - Strongest · weakest
Strongest category
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Raw score 72 · contributes 14.4 to total.
72 against a 53 category average
Weakest category
FRIA Support
Raw score 38 · contributes 5.7 to total.
38 against a 33 category average
§ 04 - Cited evidence
Download diligence record→§ Evidence
Cited per category
Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence.
Evidence ledger
- Items
- 20
- Documentation
- 13
- Public statement
- 5
- Absence
- 2
- With a source URL
- 18 of 20
- Source hostnames
- 2
- Fewest items
- 2
- FRIA Support
These figures measure how thoroughly Pinpoint was reviewed, not how Pinpoint performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
3 items72
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
ISO/IEC 42001 certification (auditor Sensiba, Q3 2025) scoped to Pinpoint's AI Management System as both AI provider and user, with an AI Governance Council and AI Impact Assessments tracking fairness, accuracy, reliability and accountability.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/insights/pinpoint-iso-42001-certified/
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Public AI-approach page documents model providers (OpenAI, Affinda), the 'Arti' AI microservice, inference-time data flows, evaluations before release, and the principle that every AI output is explainable and auditable.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/security-privacy/pinpoint-ai-approach
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Stated design principle 'If we can't explain it, we won't build it' with match scores exposing per-criterion reasoning ('There's no black box').
Bias Audit Transparency
3 items42
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Pinpoint states it relies on OpenAI's bias-mitigation research and is 'actively reviewing third-party providers for independent bias auditing'- i.e. an independent audit is planned, not yet performed or published.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/security-privacy/pinpoint-ai-approach
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
ISO 42001 AI Impact Assessments internally track fairness/accuracy, but this is an internal management-system control, not an independent or publicly downloadable bias audit.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/insights/pinpoint-iso-42001-certified/
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No NYC LL144-style bias audit summary was found on pinpointhq.com or in the ACLU crowd-sourced LL144 bias-audit tracker; no auditor, date, selection-rate or impact-ratio metrics are published.
FRIA Support
2 items38
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Pinpoint maps its human-in-the-loop architecture to EU AI Act human-oversight requirements for high-risk systems and to NYC LL144/Illinois HB 3773/California FEHA/Colorado SB 24-205, and cites candidate-notification, disclosure and audit-log tooling - partial deployer framing.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/security-privacy/pinpoint-ai-approach
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (Art. 27) template, deployer FRIA workbook, or dedicated EU AI Act deployer-obligation guide was found on the Pinpoint site or via search.
Data Governance Disclosure
3 items68
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Data is never used to train/fine-tune/improve any model; AI is opt-in; named subprocessors OpenAI, Affinda and Braintrust are listed with their SOC 2/ISO 27001 status; data shared with LLMs only at inference time ('only what the model needs', avoiding logs/metadata) with tenant isolation and stated retention windows.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/security-privacy/pinpoint-ai-approach
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Security & privacy FAQ confirms ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications and customer ownership/control of submitted data, with GDPR and CCPA compliance documentation linked.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/security-privacy/security-privacy-faqs/
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Infrastructure page discloses EU/UK data residency (Amsterdam, Dublin, London), encrypted WORM backups every 2 hours retained 30 days, and ISO 27001 / SOC accredited data centres with a documented OWASP-aligned SDLC.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/security-privacy/infrastructure-and-development-security/
Human Oversight Design
3 items64
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
In-product explainability: when a candidate receives a match score, users can open it to see why they scored against the set criteria; AI 'surfaces the insight, people make the call' and never makes the final decision.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
All AI features are explicitly opt-in and never on by default with granular per-feature enable/disable controls; AI 'must never be the final decision-maker', supported by audit logs and anonymized/redacted early-stage screening.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/security-privacy/pinpoint-ai-approach
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Product page states 'A person decides, every time'- a human is required at each decision point and every AI output is explainable and auditable.
Post-Market Monitoring
3 items52
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Live Atlassian-hosted status page showing 90-day uptime for Pinpoint components, incident history, and email/Slack/RSS/Atom subscription options ('All Systems Operational').
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Published vulnerability-disclosure/security contact (security@infuse.group) for reporting issues.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/security-privacy/security-privacy-faqs/
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Regular monthly 'Product Spotlight' release log spanning August 2024 through July 2026 provides a public feature/change record, complemented by a developer changelog with an RSS feed.
Customer Documentation
3 items66
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Public AI ATS product page describing each AI feature plus a compliance FAQ noting that AI in hiring is regulated and that Pinpoint provides candidate notifications, audit logs and disclosures.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Security & privacy hub with FAQs, privacy/cookie policies, linked GDPR and CCPA compliance documentation, a modern slavery statement, and the certification list.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/security-privacy/security-privacy-faqs/
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Responsible-AI page mapping Pinpoint's controls to NYC LL144, the EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773, California FEHA and Colorado SB 24-205 for deployer reference.
https://www.pinpointhq.com/security-privacy/pinpoint-ai-approach
§ 05 - Editorial notes
Company overview
Pinpoint is a Jersey-headquartered (St Helier) applicant tracking system founded in 2017 by Tom Hacquoil, Tom Luce and Bill Rogers and operated under the Infuse Group. It serves 500+ in-house talent teams across 50+ countries with customers split roughly between UK/Europe and the US, and layers eight AI features (AI Match Score, AI Candidate Filters, Anonymized Screening, AI Notetaker, AI Hiring Copilot, AI Candidate Companion, AI Criteria Checklist and an MCP server) on top of a core ATS. In late 2025 it became one of the first ATSs to achieve ISO/IEC 42001 certification for its AI management system.
Regulatory exposure
As an ATS whose AI Match Score and screening features rank and score candidates, Pinpoint falls within scope of NYC Local Law 144 (as an AEDT provider/deployer tool), the EU AI Act's high-risk employment provisions, and Illinois HB 3773, Colorado SB 24-205 and California FEHA. Pinpoint publicly positions its mandatory human-in-the-loop design as aligning with GDPR Article 22 and EU AI Act human-oversight requirements and provides candidate-notification, disclosure and audit-log tooling, but it has not published an independent LL144-style bias audit and offers no FRIA template. Its ISO 42001 certification covers internal AI governance and fairness monitoring (AI Impact Assessments) rather than an external, downloadable fairness audit.
Path to a higher score
The clearest gap is bias-audit transparency: commissioning and publicly posting an independent, intersectional bias audit (e.g. Warden AI, BABL AI, Holistic AI) with named auditor and date - ideally across two consecutive years - would move Pinpoint out of the 'referenced but none downloadable' tier. Publishing an EU AI Act Article 27 FRIA template / deployer-obligation guide, a per-feature instructions-for-use or model-card pack, and a public sub-processor list and standard DPA would lift the Article 11, FRIA and data-governance scores further.
§ Regulatory frame
What applies to ats-integrated ai.
Ranking features are inside EU AI Act Annex III §4 (high-risk) and inside NYC Local Law 144 when they affect NYC-based candidates. Customers should treat the AI surface as a distinct deployer-FRIA scope from the rest of the ATS.
§ Compare
Build any comparison→Pinpoint against its nearest-scoring peers.
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§ Others rated in ATS-integrated AI
All ats-integrated vendors→Ranked 6 of 47 by weighted total under rubric v1.0. The ordering is arithmetic on the rubric and carries no view on which tool suits a given hiring process.
- 03SmartRecruiters62D
- 04Alva Labs61D
- 05Dayforce57F
- 06PinpointThis profile57F
- 07Juicebox (PeopleGPT)57F
- 08Rippling56F
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