§ The result
Classet leads Brainner by 9 points.
Classet scores 55 and Brainner 46 under rubric v1.0 — a 9-point gap inside the Screening cohort. Classet leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Brainner leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brainner 42, Classet 76 — and at an 18% weight it carries 63% of the weighted advantage Classet holds across the 6 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
Classet
Classet's AI voice recruiter, Joy, phones hourly and frontline applicants within about a minute of applying, runs employer-scripted screening interviews with binary knockout questions, and sends recruiters recordings, transcripts, summaries and a qualified/unqualified outcome, either in Classet's lightweight ATS or in 100+ connected ATSs.
§ The record
Brainner and Classet are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Brainner | Classet |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Classet 76
6.1 weighted points to Classet
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Classet 58
1.6 weighted points to Classet
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Classet 46
1.2 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Classet 57
0.6 weighted points to Classet
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Classet 55
0.6 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Classet 33
0.4 weighted points to Classet
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Classet 62
0.3 weighted points to Classet
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -8.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -9 beside that -8.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Classet.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Classet | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 46 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 76 | -34 | -6.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 57 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 55 (F) | -9 | -8.4 |
§ 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 | Classet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 5 | 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; Classet has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and Classet sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 75 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 38 for Classet, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Classet last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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