§ The result
HiredScore leads Brainner by 6 points.
HiredScore scores 52 and Brainner 46 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. Brainner takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 5 for HiredScore, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Brainner 52, HiredScore 65, 20% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage HiredScore builds across the 5 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
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, HiredScore under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Brainner is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Brainner | HiredScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · HiredScore 65
2.6 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · HiredScore 55
2.3 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · HiredScore 60
1.2 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · HiredScore 35
1.2 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · HiredScore 55
0.3 weighted points to HiredScore
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · HiredScore 60
0.2 weighted points to HiredScore
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -6 beside that -5.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus HiredScore.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | HiredScore | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 65 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 55 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 55 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 52 (F) | -6 | -5.4 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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