§ The result
Eightfold AI leads Braintrust AIR by 5 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Eightfold AI, filed under Sourcing, finishes on 64 (D) and Braintrust AIR, filed under Screening, on 59 (F), 5 points apart. Eightfold AI leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Braintrust AIR leads 3, including Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Braintrust AIR 58, Eightfold AI 75 — and at a 20% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 4 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
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Eightfold AI under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Braintrust AIR is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Eightfold AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Eightfold AI 75
3.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Eightfold AI 85
1.8 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Eightfold AI 45
1.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Eightfold AI 50
1.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Eightfold AI 60
0.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Eightfold AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Eightfold AI 60
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Eightfold AI.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Eightfold AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 75 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 85 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 64 (D) | -5 | -5.4 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | Eightfold AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 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 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 13 | 2 | 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; Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and Eightfold AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next