§ The result
Beamery leads BrightHire by 10 points.
Beamery sits 10 points above BrightHire under rubric v1.0 — 61 (D) against 51 (F) — with Beamery filed under Sourcing and BrightHire under Screening. Beamery and BrightHire each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split Beamery holds (headed by Bias Audit Transparency) adds up to more weighted points. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Beamery 85, BrightHire 50 — and at an 18% weight it carries 52% of the weighted advantage Beamery holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Beamery
Talent CRM and sourcing platform that maintains a long-lived candidate pipeline, with AI-driven matching and skills inference.
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
Beamery is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, BrightHire under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only BrightHire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Beamery | BrightHire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Beamery 85 · BrightHire 50
6.3 weighted points to Beamery
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Beamery 70 · BrightHire 52
3.6 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Beamery 60 · BrightHire 42
2.2 weighted points to Beamery
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Beamery 30 · BrightHire 36
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Beamery 55 · BrightHire 60
0.6 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Beamery 60 · BrightHire 62
0.2 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +10.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Beamery minus BrightHire.
| Category | Weight | Beamery | BrightHire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 52 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 50 | +35 | +6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 36 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 51 (F) | +10 | +10.4 |
§ 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 | Beamery | BrightHire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Beamery has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Beamery sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Beamery, across 2 distinct source domains, and 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Beamery last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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