§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads HiringBranch by 7 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Braintrust AIR, filed under Screening, finishes on 59 and HiringBranch, filed under Assessment, on 52, 7 points apart. HiringBranch takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 4 for Braintrust AIR, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 1 is level. Braintrust AIR takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Braintrust AIR 75, HiringBranch 60), which is 40% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, Braintrust AIR 62 to HiringBranch 40.
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
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, HiringBranch 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 | HiringBranch |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2018 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · HiringBranch 60
2.7 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · HiringBranch 40
2.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · HiringBranch 52
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · HiringBranch 60
0.4 weighted points to HiringBranch
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · HiringBranch 55
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · HiringBranch 64
0.1 weighted points to HiringBranch
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +6.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +6.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus HiringBranch.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | HiringBranch | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 60 | +15 | +2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 64 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 52 (F) | +7 | +6.2 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 6 | Audit reportSources 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; HiringBranch has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 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 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 19 for HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next