§ The result
ADP leads Brazen on all 7 criteria.
ADP sits 10 points above Brazen under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 38 — with ADP filed under ATS-integrated and Brazen under Screening. ADP is ahead of Brazen on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being FRIA Support at ADP 28 to Brazen 25. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (ADP 46, Brazen 30, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 29% of the weighted advantage ADP holds across the 7 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
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
§ The record
ADP is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Brazen 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 Brazen is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ADP | Brazen |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1949 | 2007 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · Brazen 30
2.9 weighted points to ADP
20% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · Brazen 40
2.6 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · Brazen 45
1.8 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
ADP 55 · Brazen 46
1.1 weighted points to ADP
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
ADP 45 · Brazen 38
0.8 weighted points to ADP
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · Brazen 25
0.4 weighted points to ADP
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · Brazen 55
0.2 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Brazen.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Brazen | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 40 | +13 | +2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 30 | +16 | +2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 25 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 45 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 46 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 38 (F) | +10 | +9.9 |
§ 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 | ADP | Brazen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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