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Alva Labs vs Bryq
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.
Concerning
Assessment
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
Substantial gaps
Assessment
The result
4 points separate Alva Labs and Bryq.
Under rubric v1.0, Alva Labs and Bryq finish 4 points apart, 61 (D) to 57 (F), as two Assessment entries. The 7 criteria split 4 to 3 in favour of Alva Labs: Alva Labs is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Bryq on Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Alva Labs 78, Bryq 54) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 69% of the weighted advantage Alva Labs holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Alva Labs4
- Bryq3
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation78 vs 54
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Alva Labs and Bryq are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Alva Labs | Bryq |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2017 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight49% of the movement so far
Alva Labs78Bryq544.8 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight71% of the movement so far
Alva Labs58Bryq702.2 weighted points to Bryq
- 3
Human Oversight Design
12% weight82% of the movement so far
Alva Labs63Bryq541.1 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight92% of the movement so far
Alva Labs68Bryq620.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight95% of the movement so far
Alva Labs52Bryq550.4 weighted points to Bryq
- 6
FRIA Support
15% weight98% of the movement so far
Alva Labs38Bryq400.3 weighted points to Bryq
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Alva Labs68Bryq660.2 weighted points to Alva Labs
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.1.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus Bryq, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | Bryq | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 54 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 54 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 66 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 61D | 57F | +4 | +4.1 |
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 | Bryq | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 4 | 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; Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alva Labs and Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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