§ The result
2 points separate Alva Labs and Braintrust AIR.
Alva Labs holds a 2-point edge over Braintrust AIR under rubric v1.0, 61 (D) to 59 (F), across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Alva Labs: Alva Labs is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Braintrust AIR on Bias Audit Transparency. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Alva Labs 78, Braintrust AIR 58 — and at a 20% weight it carries 59% of the weighted advantage Alva Labs holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Alva Labs
Alva Labs sells a science-backed hiring platform whose core is a suite of proprietary psychometric assessments - an adaptive logic (general mental ability) test, a Five-Factor Model personality test, and coding tests - wrapped in candidate management, CV screening, and structured-interview tooling.
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
Alva Labs 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, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alva Labs | Braintrust AIR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alva Labs 78 · Braintrust AIR 58
4.0 weighted points to Alva Labs
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alva Labs 58 · Braintrust AIR 75
3.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alva Labs 68 · Braintrust AIR 56
1.8 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alva Labs 52 · Braintrust AIR 62
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alva Labs 38 · Braintrust AIR 35
0.4 weighted points to Alva Labs
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alva Labs 68 · Braintrust AIR 63
0.4 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alva Labs 63 · Braintrust AIR 62
0.1 weighted points to Alva Labs
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.0 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 +2.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus Braintrust AIR.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | Braintrust AIR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 58 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 75 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 56 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 63 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 59 (F) | +2 | +2.5 |
§ 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 | Alva Labs | 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% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Alva Labs has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 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 Alva Labs and Braintrust AIR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next