§ The result
Cornerstone OnDemand leads Brainner on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Cornerstone OnDemand sits 10 points above Brainner under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 46 — with Cornerstone OnDemand filed under ATS-integrated and Brainner under Screening. Cornerstone OnDemand leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Brainner is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Cornerstone OnDemand leads is Customer Documentation, Brainner 58 to Cornerstone OnDemand 60. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 52, Cornerstone OnDemand 72) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 42% of the weighted advantage Cornerstone OnDemand holds across the 6 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
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand is an enterprise talent-management and learning suite whose Cornerstone Galaxy platform uses AI-driven skills extraction and matching (including the acquired SkyHive Skills Models) to power recruiting, candidate screening, and workforce development.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Cornerstone OnDemand 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. Only Cornerstone OnDemand is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Cornerstone OnDemand |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 1999 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Cornerstone OnDemand 72
4.0 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Cornerstone OnDemand 58
2.9 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Cornerstone OnDemand 60
1.1 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Cornerstone OnDemand 35
0.8 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Cornerstone OnDemand 55
0.6 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Cornerstone OnDemand 60
0.2 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -9.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -9.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Cornerstone OnDemand.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Cornerstone OnDemand | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 72 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 56 (F) | -10 | -9.4 |
§ 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 | Cornerstone OnDemand | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 15 | 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; Cornerstone OnDemand has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and Cornerstone OnDemand 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 Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next