§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Cangrade on all 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR, filed under Screening, comes out 14 points above Cangrade, filed under Assessment: 59 against 45 under rubric v1.0. Braintrust AIR takes all 7 criteria and Cangrade none of them; the nearest contest is Customer Documentation, Braintrust AIR 63 to Cangrade 62. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Braintrust AIR 75, Cangrade 35 — and at an 18% weight it carries 52% 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
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Cangrade 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 | Cangrade |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Cangrade 35
7.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Cangrade 32
3.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Cangrade 52
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Cangrade 30
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Cangrade 56
0.7 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Cangrade 54
0.3 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Cangrade 62
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +13.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Cangrade.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Cangrade | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 35 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 54 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 32 | +30 | +3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 45 (F) | +14 | +13.8 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 4 | 3 | — |
| 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 | 3 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 20 | 10 | Sources 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; Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and Cangrade sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next