§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads ADP by 11 points.
Braintrust AIR, filed under Screening, comes out 11 points above ADP, filed under ATS-integrated: 59 against 48 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Braintrust AIR: Braintrust AIR is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and ADP on Data Governance Disclosure. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ADP 46, Braintrust AIR 75 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 6 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
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
§ The record
ADP is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Braintrust AIR 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. Only Braintrust AIR is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ADP | Braintrust AIR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1949 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · Braintrust AIR 75
5.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · Braintrust AIR 62
2.0 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · Braintrust AIR 35
1.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · Braintrust AIR 58
1.0 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · Braintrust AIR 62
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · Braintrust AIR 63
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · Braintrust AIR 56
0.1 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.7 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 -10.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Braintrust AIR.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Braintrust AIR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 58 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 75 | -29 | -5.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 59 (F) | -11 | -10.4 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources 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; Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next