§ The result
Bryq leads Avature by 9 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Bryq, filed under Assessment, finishes on 57 and Avature, filed under ATS-integrated, on 48, 9 points apart. Avature takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 5 for Bryq, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Avature 40, Bryq 70 — and at an 18% weight it carries 57% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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
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.
§ The record
Avature is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Bryq under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Bryq is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Avature | Bryq |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2004 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avature 40 · Bryq 70
5.4 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avature 40 · Bryq 55
1.8 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avature 32 · Bryq 40
1.2 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Avature 60 · Bryq 54
0.7 weighted points to Avature
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avature 58 · Bryq 62
0.6 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Avature 60 · Bryq 66
0.5 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avature 55 · Bryq 54
0.2 weighted points to Avature
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -8.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avature minus Bryq.
| Category | Weight | Avature | Bryq | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 54 | +1 | +0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 40 | 70 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 57 (F) | -9 | -8.6 |
§ 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 | Bryq | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 4 | 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; Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Avature and Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Avature, across 3 distinct source domains, and 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avature last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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