§ The result
BrightHire leads Avionté by 6 points.
Under rubric v1.0, BrightHire, filed under Screening, finishes on 51 and Avionté, filed under ATS-integrated, on 45, 6 points apart. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of BrightHire, with 2 level: BrightHire is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Avionté on Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Avionté 22, BrightHire 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 79% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Avionté
AviontéBOLD is a front- and back-office platform for staffing agencies (ATS/CRM, onboarding, payroll and billing): its AI Matching Agent ranks candidates already in an agency's database for each job, and its Claude-powered PIXEL chatbot pre-screens and scores applicants.
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
Avionté is filed under ATS-integrated AI, BrightHire 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 BrightHire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Avionté | BrightHire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2005 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Avionté 22 · BrightHire 50
5.0 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Avionté 55 · BrightHire 60
0.8 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Avionté 50 · BrightHire 52
0.4 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Avionté 45 · BrightHire 42
0.4 weighted points to Avionté
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Avionté 35 · BrightHire 36
0.1 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -6.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -6.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Avionté minus BrightHire.
| Category | Weight | Avionté | BrightHire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 50 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 36 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 51 (F) | -6 | -6.0 |
§ 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 | Avionté | BrightHire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Avionté has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 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 Avionté sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Avionté, across 4 distinct source domains, and 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Avionté last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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