§ The result
Brainner leads Ceipal on all 7 criteria.
Brainner sits 11 points above Ceipal under rubric v1.0 — 46 against 35 — with Brainner filed under Screening and Ceipal under ATS-integrated. Brainner leads every one of the 7 criteria, Ceipal none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Brainner 50 to Ceipal 46. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Brainner 52, Ceipal 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 37% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 7 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
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Ceipal under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Brainner is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Brainner | Ceipal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Ceipal 30
4.4 weighted points to Brainner
18% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Ceipal 20
4.0 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Ceipal 46
1.1 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Ceipal 38
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Ceipal 25
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Ceipal 46
0.5 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Ceipal 53
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.9 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 +11.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Ceipal.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Ceipal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 46 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 46 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 53 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 35 (F) | +11 | +11.9 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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