§ The result
Brainner leads Loxo on 4 of the 7 criteria.
Brainner scores 46 and Loxo 37 under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Brainner leads 4 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 3 are level, so Loxo is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 4 Brainner leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Brainner 53 to Loxo 50. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 52, Loxo 30) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 47% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 4 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
Loxo
Loxo is an AI-native talent-intelligence platform that combines candidate sourcing, a recruiting CRM, and an applicant tracking system, using proprietary ranking models and a self-built talent graph of 800M+ people to source, rank, and match candidates for recruiting and staffing firms.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Loxo 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 | Loxo |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Loxo 30
4.4 weighted points to Brainner
18% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Loxo 20
4.0 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Loxo 40
0.6 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Loxo 50
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +9.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Loxo.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Loxo | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 50 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 37 (F) | +9 | +9.4 |
§ 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 | Loxo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Loxo has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 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 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 19 for Loxo, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Loxo last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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