§ The result
Fuel50 leads Brainner by 12 points.
Fuel50, filed under Sourcing, comes out 12 points above Brainner, filed under Screening: 58 against 46 under rubric v1.0. Brainner takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 6 for Fuel50, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Brainner 42, Fuel50 68, 18% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Fuel50 builds 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
Fuel50
Fuel50 is an AI internal talent marketplace and workforce-transformation platform that matches employees to internal roles, gigs, mentors, learning and career paths, and fit-scores and ranks internal candidates for open roles and succession pipelines, using a skills ontology curated by in-house I/O psychologists.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Fuel50 under Candidate sourcing 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. Only Fuel50 is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Fuel50 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Fuel50 68
4.7 weighted points to Fuel50
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Fuel50 70
3.6 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Fuel50 64
1.6 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Fuel50 61
1.3 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Fuel50 40
0.6 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Fuel50 62
0.3 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Fuel50 32
0.3 weighted points to Fuel50
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -11.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Fuel50.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Fuel50 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 70 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 68 | -26 | -4.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 64 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 61 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 58 (F) | -12 | -11.3 |
§ 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 | Fuel50 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 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 | 24 | 4 | 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; Fuel50 has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and Fuel50 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for Fuel50, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Fuel50 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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