§ The result
Brainner takes the total, Cangrade takes more of the criteria.
Brainner holds a 1-point edge over Cangrade under rubric v1.0, 46 to 45, across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Cangrade leads more of the criteria, 3 against 2 for Brainner, yet Brainner takes Post-Market Monitoring, which carries 12% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brainner 45, Cangrade 32 — and at a 12% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 2 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
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Cangrade 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 Cangrade is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Cangrade |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Cangrade 32
1.6 weighted points to Brainner
18% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Cangrade 35
1.3 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Cangrade 56
0.7 weighted points to Cangrade
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Cangrade 62
0.3 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Cangrade 54
0.1 weighted points to Cangrade
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +1.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Cangrade.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Cangrade | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 54 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 56 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 32 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 45 (F) | +1 | +1.6 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 3 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 20 | 10 | Sources 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; Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and Cangrade sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 64 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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