§ The result
2 points separate ADP and Brainner.
ADP holds a 2-point edge over Brainner under rubric v1.0, 48 to 46, across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of ADP, with 2 level: ADP is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Brainner on FRIA Support. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Human Oversight Design (ADP 55, Brainner 50) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (ADP 46, Brainner 42), the second being 34% of the weighted advantage ADP holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
§ The record
ADP is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Brainner under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | ADP | Brainner |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1949 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · Brainner 42
0.7 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · Brainner 53
0.6 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · Brainner 50
0.6 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · Brainner 30
0.3 weighted points to Brainner
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · Brainner 52
0.2 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Brainner.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Brainner | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 52 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 42 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 53 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 46 (F) | +2 | +1.8 |
§ 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 | ADP | Brainner | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | 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 domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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