§ The result
Bryq leads Brainner on all 7 criteria.
Bryq sits 11 points above Brainner under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 46 — with Bryq filed under Assessment and Brainner under Screening. Bryq takes all 7 criteria and Brainner none of them; the nearest contest is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Brainner 52 to Bryq 54. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 42, Bryq 70) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds 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
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Bryq under Assessment 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 Bryq is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Bryq |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Bryq 70
5.0 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Bryq 40
1.5 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Bryq 62
1.3 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Bryq 55
1.2 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Bryq 66
0.6 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Bryq 54
0.5 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Bryq 54
0.4 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -10.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Bryq.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Bryq | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 54 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 70 | -28 | -5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 62 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 54 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 57 (F) | -11 | -10.6 |
§ 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 | Bryq | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 4 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 4 | 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; Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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