§ The result
Brainner and Talkpush tie at 46.
Brainner and Talkpush tie at 46 under rubric v1.0 inside the Screening cohort, arriving there from different criteria. Brainner leads 2 of the 7 criteria and Talkpush 3, with 2 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Data Governance Disclosure, is both the widest raw gap (Brainner 53, Talkpush 44) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 15% weight it makes up 75% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 2 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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
Brainner and Talkpush are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Talkpush is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | HK |
| Founded | 2023 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Talkpush 44
1.3 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Talkpush 56
0.7 weighted points to Talkpush
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Talkpush 27
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Talkpush 60
0.2 weighted points to Talkpush
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Talkpush 46
0.1 weighted points to Talkpush
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +0.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 2.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 44 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 56 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 46 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 46 (F) | - | +0.8 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 21 | 7 | 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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