Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Brainner vs Darwinbox
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.
Substantial gaps
Screening
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Brainner and Darwinbox tie at 46.
Brainner (Screening) and Darwinbox (ATS-integrated) tie at 46 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Brainner leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Darwinbox 3, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 42, Darwinbox 28) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 66% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Brainner3
- Darwinbox3
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency42 vs 28
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Darwinbox under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
| Record | Brainner | Darwinbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2023 | 2015 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight37% of the movement so far
Brainner42Darwinbox282.5 weighted points to Brainner
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight61% of the movement so far
Brainner52Darwinbox601.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight79% of the movement so far
Brainner45Darwinbox351.2 weighted points to Brainner
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight90% of the movement so far
Brainner53Darwinbox580.8 weighted points to Darwinbox
- 5
Human Oversight Design
12% weight99% of the movement so far
Brainner50Darwinbox550.6 weighted points to Darwinbox
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Brainner58Darwinbox570.1 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Darwinbox, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Darwinbox | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 28 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 58 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 57 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 46F | 46F | - | +0.8 |
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 | Darwinbox | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 24 | 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; Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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