§ The result
Bryq leads BambooHR on all 7 criteria.
Bryq sits 14 points above BambooHR under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 43 — with Bryq filed under Assessment and BambooHR under ATS-integrated. Bryq leads every one of the 7 criteria, BambooHR none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, BambooHR 50 to Bryq 54. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BambooHR 28, Bryq 70 — and at an 18% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
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
BambooHR is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Bryq under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Bryq is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BambooHR | Bryq |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2008 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Bryq 70
7.6 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Bryq 54
2.4 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Bryq 55
1.3 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Bryq 40
0.9 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Bryq 62
0.9 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Bryq 54
0.5 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Bryq 66
0.3 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -13.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Bryq.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Bryq | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 54 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 70 | -42 | -7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 40 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 54 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 55 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 66 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 57 (F) | -14 | -13.9 |
§ 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 | BambooHR | Bryq | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 20 | 4 | 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; Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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