§ The result
Brainner takes the total, Cegid takes more of the criteria.
Brainner (Screening) edges Cegid (ATS-integrated) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 46 to 45. Cegid leads more of the criteria than Brainner — 4 to 3 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Brainner leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Brainner. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 42, Cegid 30) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 68% 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
Cegid
Cegid's HR suite offers two recruiting lines: Cegid HR Talent Acquisition (ex-DigitalRecruiters), an ATS/CRM with CV parsing, scorecards, automated scoring and an AI conversational agent that pre-qualifies candidates on career sites and WhatsApp, and Cegid Talentsoft (now sold as Cegid HR Suite) recruiting, whose 'Recruiting Match' matches positions to candidates algorithmically.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Cegid 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 | Cegid |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | FR |
| Founded | 2023 | 1983 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Cegid 30
2.2 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Cegid 55
0.6 weighted points to Cegid
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Cegid 40
0.6 weighted points to Brainner
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Cegid 50
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Cegid 62
0.3 weighted points to Cegid
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Cegid 32
0.3 weighted points to Cegid
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Cegid 55
0.3 weighted points to Cegid
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.7 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 Cegid.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Cegid | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 55 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| 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 | Cegid | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 3 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 33 | 6 | 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; Cegid has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 6 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 76 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for Cegid, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cegid last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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