§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Alooba on all 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR finishes 21 points clear of Alooba under rubric v1.0 — 59 against 38 — across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Braintrust AIR takes all 7 criteria and Alooba none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, Alooba 58 to Braintrust AIR 63. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Alooba 22, Braintrust AIR 75) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 47% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Alooba
Alooba sells online skills assessments (auto-graded SQL, Python/R, multiple-choice and data-analysis tests, plus manually graded free-response and one-way video questions) that employers use to screen, benchmark and optionally auto-reject job candidates.
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
Alooba is filed under Assessment AI, Braintrust AIR under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alooba | Braintrust AIR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alooba 22 · Braintrust AIR 75
9.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alooba 40 · Braintrust AIR 58
3.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alooba 36 · Braintrust AIR 62
3.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alooba 45 · Braintrust AIR 56
1.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alooba 28 · Braintrust AIR 35
1.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alooba 55 · Braintrust AIR 62
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alooba 58 · Braintrust AIR 63
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -20.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alooba minus Braintrust AIR.
| Category | Weight | Alooba | Braintrust AIR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 75 | -53 | -9.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 56 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 62 | -26 | -3.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 59 (F) | -21 | -20.2 |
§ 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 | Alooba | Braintrust AIR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Alooba has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 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 Alooba and Braintrust AIR 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: 34 for Alooba, across 3 distinct source domains, and 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alooba last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next