§ The result
Brainner leads Brazen on all 7 criteria.
Inside the Screening cohort, rubric v1.0 puts Brainner on 46 and Brazen on 38, 8 points apart. Brainner is ahead of Brazen on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Customer Documentation at Brainner 58 to Brazen 55. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Brainner 52, Brazen 40, 20% weight), is only 30% of the weighted advantage Brainner builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
§ The record
Brainner and Brazen 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 Brazen is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Brazen |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2007 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Brazen 40
2.4 weighted points to Brainner
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Brazen 30
2.2 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Brazen 45
1.2 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Brazen 38
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Brazen 25
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Brazen 46
0.5 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Brazen 55
0.2 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Brazen.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Brazen | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 45 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 46 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 38 (F) | +8 | +8.1 |
§ 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 | Brazen | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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