§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Brainner on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Screening entries Braintrust AIR and Brainner at 59 and 46, a gap of 13 points. Braintrust AIR takes all 7 criteria and Brainner none of them; the nearest contest is Data Governance Disclosure, Brainner 53 to Braintrust AIR 56. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brainner 42, Braintrust AIR 75 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
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
Brainner and Braintrust AIR are both filed 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 Braintrust AIR is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Braintrust AIR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Braintrust AIR 75
5.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Braintrust AIR 62
2.0 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Braintrust AIR 62
1.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Braintrust AIR 58
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Braintrust AIR 35
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Braintrust AIR 56
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Braintrust AIR 63
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Braintrust AIR.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Braintrust AIR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 75 | -33 | -5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 56 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 63 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 59 (F) | -13 | -12.2 |
§ 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 | Brainner | Braintrust AIR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 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 Brainner and Braintrust AIR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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