§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Canditech on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Braintrust AIR (Screening) opens a 20-point lead on Canditech (Assessment), 59 to 39. Canditech leads none of the 7 criteria, and Braintrust AIR is ahead on 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Braintrust AIR 75, Canditech 25 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
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
Canditech
Canditech is a skills-assessment and job-simulation platform that screens candidates with work-sample tests, technical and soft-skill assessments, and one-way video interviews, using AI agents to auto-score open-text and video responses.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Canditech under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Canditech |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IL |
| Founded | 2018 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Canditech 25
9.0 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Canditech 37
4.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Canditech 32
3.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Canditech 53
1.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Canditech 30
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Canditech 52
0.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Canditech 58
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +19.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Canditech.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Canditech | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 37 | +21 | +4.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 25 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 53 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 32 | +30 | +3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 39 (F) | +20 | +19.6 |
§ 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 | Canditech | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 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% | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next