§ The result
Ashby leads Brazen on all 7 criteria.
Ashby finishes 18 points clear of Brazen under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 38 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Ashby leads every one of the 7 criteria, Brazen none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Ashby 42 to Brazen 38. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Ashby 62, Brazen 30, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage Ashby holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform combining applicant tracking, CRM/sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, with embedded AI features including resume-to-criteria evaluation, AI-assisted application review, sourcing outreach, and scheduling agents.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
§ The record
Ashby is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Brazen under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Brazen is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Ashby | Brazen |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2007 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ashby 62 · Brazen 30
5.8 weighted points to Ashby
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ashby 63 · Brazen 40
4.6 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ashby 42 · Brazen 25
2.5 weighted points to Ashby
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ashby 58 · Brazen 45
1.9 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ashby 62 · Brazen 46
1.9 weighted points to Ashby
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ashby 63 · Brazen 55
0.6 weighted points to Ashby
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ashby 42 · Brazen 38
0.5 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +17.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus Brazen.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | Brazen | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 40 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 30 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 25 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 46 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 38 (F) | +18 | +17.9 |
§ 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 | Ashby | Brazen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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