§ The result
Brainner leads micro1 on all 7 criteria.
Both filed under Screening, Brainner and micro1 come out 46 and 36 under rubric v1.0, 10 points in favour of Brainner. Of the 7 criteria micro1 wins none, and the narrowest lead Brainner holds is on Article 11 Technical Documentation, Brainner 52 to micro1 50. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Brainner 42, micro1 20, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 38% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 7 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
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
§ The record
Brainner and micro1 are both filed under Screening 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 micro1 is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | micro1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · micro1 20
4.0 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · micro1 25
2.4 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · micro1 22
1.2 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · micro1 45
1.2 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · micro1 45
1.0 weighted points to Brainner
20% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · micro1 50
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · micro1 48
0.2 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus micro1.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | micro1 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 22 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 45 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 25 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 36 (F) | +10 | +10.4 |
§ 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 | micro1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 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 | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 8 | 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; micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and micro1 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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