§ The result
1 point separates Hogan Assessments and Brainner.
Hogan Assessments holds a 1-point edge over Brainner under rubric v1.0, 47 to 46, across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Hogan Assessments leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including FRIA Support, while Brainner leads 3, including Post-Market Monitoring. FRIA Support is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brainner 30, Hogan Assessments 36 — and at a 15% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Hogan Assessments holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Hogan Assessments
Hogan Assessments provides science-based personality assessments - chiefly the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), Hogan Development Survey (HDS), and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) - used to predict workplace performance for employee selection and development.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Hogan Assessments 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 Hogan Assessments is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Hogan Assessments |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 1987 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 30% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Hogan Assessments 36
0.9 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
12% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Hogan Assessments 40
0.6 weighted points to Brainner
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Hogan Assessments 50
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Hogan Assessments 44
0.4 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Hogan Assessments 62
0.3 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Hogan Assessments 52
0.2 weighted points to Hogan Assessments
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Hogan Assessments 52
0.1 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Hogan Assessments.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Hogan Assessments | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 44 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 36 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 52 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 52 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 47 (F) | -1 | -0.7 |
§ 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 | Hogan Assessments | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 6 | 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; Hogan Assessments has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 6 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 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for Hogan Assessments, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Hogan Assessments last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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