§ The result
2 points separate Braintrust AIR and Bryq.
Braintrust AIR (Screening) edges Bryq (Assessment) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 59 to 57. Braintrust AIR leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Human Oversight Design, while Bryq leads 3, including Data Governance Disclosure. Even Human Oversight Design, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Braintrust AIR 62, Bryq 54, 12% weight), is only 27% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR builds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Bryq under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Bryq |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 18% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Bryq 54
1.0 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Bryq 70
0.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Bryq 62
0.9 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Bryq 55
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Bryq 54
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Bryq 40
0.8 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Bryq 66
0.2 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.4 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 +1.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Bryq.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Bryq | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 54 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 70 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 66 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 57 (F) | +2 | +1.6 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | Bryq | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next