§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads impress.ai on all 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR finishes 21 points clear of impress.ai inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 59 against 38. Braintrust AIR leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; impress.ai leads none. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Braintrust AIR 75, impress.ai 22) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 45% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 7 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
impress.ai
impress.ai is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment automation platform that uses conversational AI assistants, resume parsing and scoring, and structured competency-based screening to filter, rank and shortlist job candidates, integrating with enterprise ATS systems.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR and impress.ai are both filed under Screening 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 | impress.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2018 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · impress.ai 22
9.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · impress.ai 35
4.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · impress.ai 32
3.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · impress.ai 25
1.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · impress.ai 52
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · impress.ai 58
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · impress.ai 55
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +21.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus impress.ai.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | impress.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +4.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 22 | +53 | +9.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 32 | +30 | +3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 38 (F) | +21 | +21.0 |
§ 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 | impress.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 18 | 7 | Sources 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; impress.ai has 25 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 7 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 57 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 25 for impress.ai, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- impress.ai last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next