§ The result
1 point separates Braintrust AIR and HireVue.
Braintrust AIR (Screening) edges HireVue (Video interview) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 59 to 58. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Braintrust AIR, with 1 level: Braintrust AIR is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and HireVue on Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, is both the widest raw gap (Braintrust AIR 62, HireVue 45) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 66% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds 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
HireVue
Asynchronous video interviewing platform with optional AI-driven assessment scoring of candidate responses.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, HireVue under Video interview 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 | HireVue |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2004 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · HireVue 45
2.0 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · HireVue 65
1.4 weighted points to HireVue
18% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · HireVue 80
0.9 weighted points to HireVue
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · HireVue 55
0.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · HireVue 60
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · HireVue 55
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.8 — 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 +1 beside that +0.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus HireVue.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | HireVue | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 80 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 58 (F) | +1 | +0.8 |
§ 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 | HireVue | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | 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 | — |
| 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; HireVue 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 HireVue 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 HireVue, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireVue last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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