§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Paycor on all 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR finishes 19 points clear of Paycor under rubric v1.0 — 59 against 40 — across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Braintrust AIR takes all 7 criteria and Paycor none of them; the nearest contest is Data Governance Disclosure, Braintrust AIR 56 to Paycor 50. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Braintrust AIR 75, Paycor 25) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 47% 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
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Paycor under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Braintrust AIR is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Paycor 25
9.0 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Paycor 40
3.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Paycor 38
2.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Paycor 27
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Paycor 50
0.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Paycor 55
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Paycor 55
0.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +19 beside that +19.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 25 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 38 | +24 | +2.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 55 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 40 (F) | +19 | +19.1 |
§ 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 | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 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 | 4 | 1 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 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 | 24 | 6 | 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; Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 62 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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