§ The result
Brainner leads Zappyhire on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Brainner sits 12 points above Zappyhire under rubric v1.0, 46 against 34, with both filed under Screening. Brainner leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Zappyhire is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Brainner leads is FRIA Support, Brainner 30 to Zappyhire 25. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Brainner 52, Zappyhire 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 35% of the weighted advantage Brainner holds across the 6 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Brainner and Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2023 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Zappyhire 30
4.4 weighted points to Brainner
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Zappyhire 28
2.5 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Zappyhire 28
2.0 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Zappyhire 42
1.6 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Zappyhire 45
1.0 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Zappyhire 25
0.8 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +12.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +12.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 28 | +14 | +2.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 42 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 28 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 34 (F) | +12 | +12.4 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | Audit reportSources 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner and Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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