§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Arctic Shores by 13 points.
Braintrust AIR, filed under Screening, comes out 13 points above Arctic Shores, filed under Assessment: 59 against 46 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Braintrust AIR, with 1 level: Braintrust AIR is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Arctic Shores on Data Governance Disclosure. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Arctic Shores 35, Braintrust AIR 75 — and at an 18% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Arctic Shores
Arctic Shores sells a task-based psychometric assessment platform ("Una") that scores candidates on behaviour captured during short interactive tasks - covering personality, workplace intelligence and learning agility - rather than self-report questionnaires or CV review.
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
Arctic Shores 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 | Arctic Shores | Braintrust AIR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Arctic Shores 35 · Braintrust AIR 75
7.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Arctic Shores 30 · Braintrust AIR 62
3.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Arctic Shores 50 · Braintrust AIR 58
1.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Arctic Shores 56 · Braintrust AIR 62
0.7 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Arctic Shores 57 · Braintrust AIR 56
0.1 weighted points to Arctic Shores
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Arctic Shores 64 · Braintrust AIR 63
0.1 weighted points to Arctic Shores
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -13.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Arctic Shores minus Braintrust AIR.
| Category | Weight | Arctic Shores | Braintrust AIR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 75 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 62 | -32 | -3.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 63 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 59 (F) | -13 | -13.1 |
§ 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 | Arctic Shores | Braintrust AIR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 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% | 2 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Arctic Shores has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 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 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 Arctic Shores, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Arctic Shores last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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