§ The result
BrightHire leads Aon Assessment on all 7 criteria.
BrightHire finishes 16 points clear of Aon Assessment under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 35 — across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. BrightHire leads every one of the 7 criteria, Aon Assessment none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Aon Assessment 25 to BrightHire 36. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Data Governance Disclosure (Aon Assessment 38, BrightHire 60) and Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Aon Assessment 30, BrightHire 50), the second being 23% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Aon Assessment
Aon Assessment Solutions (formerly cut-e) provides enterprise pre-hire psychometric assessments - ability, personality (ADEPT-15), situational-judgement, gamified cognitive (smartPredict/gridChallenge) tests and an AI-scored video interview tool (vidAssess-AI) - used to screen and rank job applicants at scale.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
§ The record
Aon Assessment is filed under Assessment AI, BrightHire under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Aon Assessment | BrightHire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Aon Assessment 30 · BrightHire 50
3.6 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Aon Assessment 38 · BrightHire 60
3.3 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Aon Assessment 40 · BrightHire 52
2.4 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Aon Assessment 25 · BrightHire 42
2.0 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Aon Assessment 45 · BrightHire 60
1.8 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Aon Assessment 25 · BrightHire 36
1.6 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Aon Assessment 48 · BrightHire 62
1.1 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -15.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Aon Assessment minus BrightHire.
| Category | Weight | Aon Assessment | BrightHire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 36 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 51 (F) | -16 | -15.9 |
§ 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 | Aon Assessment | BrightHire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Aon Assessment has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Aon Assessment sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Aon Assessment, across 3 distinct source domains, and 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Aon Assessment last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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