§ The result
3 points separate Brainner and Breezy HR.
Brainner (Screening) edges Breezy HR (ATS-integrated) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 46 to 43. Breezy HR takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 3 for Brainner, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 42, Breezy HR 25) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 71% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 3 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
Breezy HR
Breezy HR is an SMB-focused applicant tracking system with a drag-and-drop hiring pipeline, multi-board job distribution, scorecards and interview scheduling, plus a credit-metered AI add-on ("Breezy Intelligence") that scores and ranks applicants against job requirements, audits resumes for AI-generated content, and summarizes candidate activity.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Breezy HR under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Brainner | Breezy HR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Breezy HR 25
3.1 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Breezy HR 38
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Breezy HR 55
0.6 weighted points to Breezy HR
20% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Breezy HR 50
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Breezy HR 55
0.3 weighted points to Breezy HR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +3.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Breezy HR.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Breezy HR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 25 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 55 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 43 (F) | +3 | +3.4 |
§ 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 | Brainner | Breezy HR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 23 | 9 | 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; Breezy HR has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 with a source URL, 9 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and Breezy HR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for Breezy HR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Breezy HR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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