§ The result
Brainner leads RecruitBot on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Brainner, filed under Screening, finishes on 46 and RecruitBot, filed under Sourcing, on 37, 9 points apart. RecruitBot is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Brainner takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Brainner 30 to RecruitBot 27. Brainner takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Brainner 52, RecruitBot 33), which is 40% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, Brainner 42 to RecruitBot 22.
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
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, RecruitBot under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · RecruitBot 33
3.8 weighted points to Brainner
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · RecruitBot 22
3.6 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · RecruitBot 48
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · RecruitBot 40
0.6 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · RecruitBot 27
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · RecruitBot 55
0.2 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 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 RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 33 | +19 | +3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 22 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 48 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| 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 | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 6 | 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; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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