§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads BambooHR on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR finishes 16 points clear of BambooHR under rubric v1.0 — 59 against 43 — across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Braintrust AIR leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so BambooHR is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Braintrust AIR leads is FRIA Support, BambooHR 34 to Braintrust AIR 35. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (BambooHR 28, Braintrust AIR 75) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 55% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
BambooHR
A cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized businesses combining an HRIS and applicant tracking with generative AI features such as AI-drafted job descriptions and a natural-language HR data assistant.
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
BambooHR 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 and Colorado AI Act. Only Braintrust AIR is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BambooHR | Braintrust AIR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2008 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Braintrust AIR 75
8.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Braintrust AIR 58
3.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Braintrust AIR 62
2.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Braintrust AIR 62
1.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Braintrust AIR 35
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Braintrust AIR 63
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -15.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -15.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Braintrust AIR.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Braintrust AIR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 75 | -47 | -8.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 35 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 56 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 62 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 63 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 59 (F) | -16 | -15.5 |
§ 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 | BambooHR | Braintrust AIR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 Braintrust AIR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next