§ The result
1 point separates Knockri and Brainner.
Knockri holds a 1-point edge over Brainner under rubric v1.0, 47 to 46, across the Video interview and Screening cohorts. Knockri leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Human Oversight Design, while Brainner leads 3, including Bias Audit Transparency. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Brainner takes Bias Audit Transparency at 18%, Brainner 42 to Knockri 35, 47% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Human Oversight Design, Brainner 50 to Knockri 60.
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
Knockri
Knockri runs asynchronous structured behavioural interviews that candidates answer by audio, video or text; it transcribes the answers, uses NLP models to score the work-related behaviours they describe against a skills framework, and produces per-skill scores and ranked shortlists.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Knockri under Video interview 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 Knockri is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Knockri |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Knockri 35
1.3 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Knockri 60
1.2 weighted points to Knockri
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Knockri 35
1.2 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Knockri 35
0.8 weighted points to Knockri
20% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Knockri 55
0.6 weighted points to Knockri
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Knockri 55
0.3 weighted points to Knockri
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Knockri 55
0.2 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -0.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.6 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 -0.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Knockri.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Knockri | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| 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 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 47 (F) | -1 | -0.2 |
§ 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 | Knockri | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 36 | 5 | Sources 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; Knockri has 41 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and Knockri sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 78 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 41 for Knockri, across 7 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Knockri last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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