§ The result
HiPeople leads Brainner on all 7 criteria.
HiPeople finishes 15 points clear of Brainner under rubric v1.0 — 61 (D) against 46 (F) — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. HiPeople leads every one of the 7 criteria, Brainner none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Brainner 30 to HiPeople 35. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 42, HiPeople 84) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 51% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds 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
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, HiPeople under Assessment 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 HiPeople is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | HiPeople |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · HiPeople 84
7.6 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · HiPeople 62
2.0 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · HiPeople 60
1.8 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · HiPeople 62
1.4 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · HiPeople 35
0.8 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · HiPeople 58
0.8 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · HiPeople 66
0.6 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus HiPeople.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | HiPeople | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 62 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 84 | -42 | -7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 58 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 61 (D) | -15 | -14.9 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 27 | 8 | 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; HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and HiPeople 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 HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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