§ The result
2 points separate VidCruiter and Brainner.
VidCruiter holds a 2-point edge over Brainner under rubric v1.0, 48 to 46, across the Video interview and Screening cohorts. Brainner takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 5 for VidCruiter, whose share includes Human Oversight Design. Human Oversight Design is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brainner 50, VidCruiter 62 — and at a 12% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage VidCruiter holds across the 5 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
VidCruiter
VidCruiter is an enterprise recruitment platform combining live and pre-recorded video interviewing, structured interview workflows, automated scheduling, skills testing, automated reference checks, and AI features such as transcript-based AI Interview Scoring, AI Interview Notes, and AI fraud detection.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, VidCruiter under Video interview 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 VidCruiter is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | VidCruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2023 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · VidCruiter 62
1.4 weighted points to VidCruiter
12% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · VidCruiter 33
1.4 weighted points to Brainner
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · VidCruiter 58
1.2 weighted points to VidCruiter
18% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · VidCruiter 38
0.7 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · VidCruiter 56
0.4 weighted points to VidCruiter
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · VidCruiter 32
0.3 weighted points to VidCruiter
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · VidCruiter 60
0.2 weighted points to VidCruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -1.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus VidCruiter.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | VidCruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 58 | -6 | -1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 56 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 33 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 48 (F) | -2 | -1.4 |
§ 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 | VidCruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 6 | 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; VidCruiter has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 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 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for VidCruiter, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- VidCruiter last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next