§ The result
Brainner and HiBob tie at 46.
Brainner (Screening) and HiBob (ATS-integrated) tie at 46 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Brainner leads 1 of the 7 criteria and HiBob 6, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 42, HiBob 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 100% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 1 criterion 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
HiBob
HiBob's Bob is an all-in-one HR platform whose Bob Hiring applicant tracking module uses AI to give each application an explainable match score against recruiter-defined criteria (AI CV Matching) and to draft job descriptions, interview scorecards and candidate emails.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, HiBob 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 | HiBob |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2023 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · HiBob 20
4.0 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · HiBob 63
1.6 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · HiBob 35
0.8 weighted points to HiBob
20% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · HiBob 55
0.6 weighted points to HiBob
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · HiBob 57
0.6 weighted points to HiBob
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · HiBob 47
0.2 weighted points to HiBob
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · HiBob 61
0.2 weighted points to HiBob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to 0.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.0 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 0.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus HiBob.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | HiBob | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 57 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 63 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 47 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 61 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 46 (F) | - | 0.0 |
§ 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 | HiBob | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 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 | 29 | 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; HiBob has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 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 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 36 for HiBob, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiBob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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