§ The result
Greenhouse leads Brainner on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Greenhouse (ATS-integrated) opens a 21-point lead on Brainner (Screening), 67 (D) to 46 (F). Of the 7 criteria Brainner wins none, and the narrowest lead Greenhouse holds is on Customer Documentation, Brainner 58 to Greenhouse 64. The advantage Greenhouse holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Brainner 42, Greenhouse 86, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 39% of the weighted points Greenhouse gains across the 7 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
Greenhouse
End-to-end applicant tracking system and structured-hiring platform, now layered with 'Greenhouse AI' features such as resume parsing, Talent Matching, and interview summarisation.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Greenhouse 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.
| Record | Brainner | Greenhouse |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Greenhouse 86
7.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Greenhouse 78
5.2 weighted points to Greenhouse
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Greenhouse 66
1.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Greenhouse 42
1.8 weighted points to Greenhouse
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Greenhouse 64
1.6 weighted points to Greenhouse
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Greenhouse 58
1.6 weighted points to Greenhouse
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Greenhouse 64
0.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -20.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Greenhouse.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Greenhouse | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 78 | -26 | -5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 86 | -44 | -7.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 64 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 66 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 64 | -6 | -0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 67 (D) | -21 | -20.5 |
§ 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 | Greenhouse | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 16 | 1 | 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; Greenhouse has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and Greenhouse sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Greenhouse, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Greenhouse last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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