§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Avature by 11 points.
Braintrust AIR sits 11 points above Avature under rubric v1.0 — 59 against 48 — with Braintrust AIR filed under Screening and Avature under ATS-integrated. Avature takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Data Governance Disclosure among them, against 6 for Braintrust AIR, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Avature 40, Braintrust AIR 75) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 60% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Avature
Avature is an enterprise talent acquisition and talent management platform (recruiting CRM, ATS, onboarding and internal mobility) with built-in AI for semantic search, explainable weighted candidate matching and ranking, candidate fraud detection and configurable recruiting agents.
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
Avature is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Braintrust AIR under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Braintrust AIR is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Avature | Braintrust AIR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avature 40 · Braintrust AIR 75
6.3 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avature 40 · Braintrust AIR 62
2.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avature 55 · Braintrust AIR 58
0.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avature 32 · Braintrust AIR 35
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avature 58 · Braintrust AIR 56
0.3 weighted points to Avature
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avature 60 · Braintrust AIR 62
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avature 60 · Braintrust AIR 63
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -10.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avature minus Braintrust AIR.
| Category | Weight | Avature | Braintrust AIR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 75 | -35 | -6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 62 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 59 (F) | -11 | -10.2 |
§ 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 | Avature | Braintrust AIR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Avature has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 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 Avature and 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 Avature, across 3 distinct source domains, and 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next