§ The result
BrightHire leads Brainner by 5 points.
Inside the Screening cohort, rubric v1.0 puts BrightHire on 51 and Brainner on 46, 5 points apart. BrightHire leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Brainner leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Human Oversight Design is the widest raw gap (Brainner 50, BrightHire 60) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Brainner 42, BrightHire 50), 29% of the weighted advantage BrightHire builds across the 5 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
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
Brainner and BrightHire 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 BrightHire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | BrightHire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · BrightHire 50
1.4 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · BrightHire 60
1.2 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · BrightHire 60
1.1 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · BrightHire 36
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · BrightHire 42
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · BrightHire 62
0.3 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus BrightHire.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | BrightHire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 36 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 51 (F) | -5 | -4.5 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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