§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Recruit CRM on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Braintrust AIR (Screening) opens a 19-point lead on Recruit CRM (ATS-integrated), 59 to 40. Recruit CRM leads none of the 7 criteria, and Braintrust AIR is ahead on 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Braintrust AIR 75, Recruit CRM 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 7 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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Braintrust AIR is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Recruit CRM 20
9.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Recruit CRM 34
4.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Recruit CRM 42
2.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Recruit CRM 58
0.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Recruit CRM 54
0.3 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Recruit CRM 60
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Recruit CRM 34
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.3 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 +18.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 34 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 20 | +55 | +9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 34 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 54 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 40 (F) | +19 | +18.3 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 5 | 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 | 30 | 5 | Sources 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; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next