§ The result
Brainner leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
Brainner finishes 16 points clear of XOR inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 46 against 30. Of the 7 criteria XOR wins none, and the narrowest lead Brainner holds is on FRIA Support, Brainner 30 to XOR 25. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Brainner 52, XOR 20, 20% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Brainner builds across the 7 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
Brainner and XOR are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Brainner | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · XOR 20
6.4 weighted points to Brainner
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · XOR 18
4.3 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · XOR 42
1.6 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · XOR 33
1.4 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · XOR 40
1.2 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · XOR 48
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · XOR 25
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +16.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 20 | +32 | +6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 18 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 42 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 33 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 30 (F) | +16 | +16.6 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | 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; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 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 XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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