§ The result
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting leads Brainner by 7 points.
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting scores 53 and Brainner 46 under rubric v1.0, a 7-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting: SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Brainner on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 52, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 50% of the weighted advantage SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting holds across the 5 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
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting is the recruiting module of SAP's cloud HCM suite, using AI (career-site skills matching, job-description generation, resume skills extraction and stack-ranking of applicants) delivered under SAP Business AI and the Joule assistant.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2023 | 1972 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 70
3.6 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
1.4 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 60
1.1 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 35
0.8 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
0.6 weighted points to Brainner
18% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 40
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting 62
0.3 weighted points to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -6.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 70 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 60 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 40 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 53 (F) | -7 | -6.2 |
§ 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 | SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 a separate domain |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 17 | 5 | Audit reportSources 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; SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 22 for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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