§ The result
Dayforce leads Brainner on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Dayforce, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 11 points above Brainner, filed under Screening: 57 against 46 under rubric v1.0. Brainner is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Dayforce takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Post-Market Monitoring, Brainner 45 to Dayforce 47. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brainner 52, Dayforce 74 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Dayforce 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
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Dayforce under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Brainner | Dayforce |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 1992 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Dayforce 74
4.4 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Dayforce 68
2.2 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Dayforce 40
1.5 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Dayforce 63
1.5 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Dayforce 70
1.0 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Dayforce 47
0.2 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -10.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 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 -10.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Dayforce.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Dayforce | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 74 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 63 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 68 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 47 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 57 (F) | -11 | -10.8 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 28 | 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; Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 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 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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