§ The result
Pinpoint leads Brainner on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Pinpoint, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 11 points above Brainner, filed under Screening: 57 against 46 under rubric v1.0. Brainner is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Pinpoint takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Post-Market Monitoring, Brainner 45 to Pinpoint 52. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Brainner 52, Pinpoint 72, 20% weight), is only 38% of the weighted advantage Pinpoint builds across the 6 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
Pinpoint
Pinpoint is an applicant tracking system for in-house talent teams that layers AI-assisted screening onto core hiring workflows - candidate match scores, AI filters, anonymized screening, an interview notetaker, and a hiring copilot for outreach and rejections.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Pinpoint under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Brainner | Pinpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | JE |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Pinpoint 72
4.0 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Pinpoint 68
2.3 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Pinpoint 64
1.7 weighted points to Pinpoint
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Pinpoint 38
1.2 weighted points to Pinpoint
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Pinpoint 52
0.8 weighted points to Pinpoint
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Pinpoint 66
0.6 weighted points to Pinpoint
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -10.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -10.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Pinpoint.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Pinpoint | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 72 | -20 | -4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 68 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 64 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 52 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 66 | -8 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 57 (F) | -11 | -10.6 |
§ 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 | Pinpoint | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 18 | 2 | 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; Pinpoint has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 2 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 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Pinpoint, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pinpoint last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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