§ The result
Braintrust AIR takes the total, iMocha takes more of the criteria.
Braintrust AIR holds a 3-point edge over iMocha under rubric v1.0, 59 to 56, across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. iMocha leads more of the criteria, 5 against 2 for Braintrust AIR, yet Braintrust AIR takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Braintrust AIR 75, iMocha 44 — and at an 18% weight it carries 77% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 2 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
iMocha
iMocha is an AI-powered skills assessment and skills-intelligence platform that evaluates candidates and employees across technical, cognitive, coding, and soft skills for hiring and internal talent management, including AI-based coding simulators and an AI video interviewer (Tara).
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, iMocha 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 | iMocha |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2018 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · iMocha 44
5.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · iMocha 68
2.0 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · iMocha 48
1.7 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · iMocha 66
1.5 weighted points to iMocha
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · iMocha 38
0.4 weighted points to iMocha
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · iMocha 64
0.2 weighted points to iMocha
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · iMocha 66
0.2 weighted points to iMocha
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +2.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus iMocha.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | iMocha | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 68 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 44 | +31 | +5.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 66 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 66 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 56 (F) | +3 | +2.8 |
§ 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 | iMocha | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 21 | 5 | 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; iMocha has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and iMocha sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 26 for iMocha, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- iMocha last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next