§ The result
3 points separate SmartRecruiters and Braintrust AIR.
SmartRecruiters holds a 3-point edge over Braintrust AIR under rubric v1.0, 62 (D) to 59 (F), across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Braintrust AIR takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 4 for SmartRecruiters, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 2 are level. SmartRecruiters takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Braintrust AIR 58, SmartRecruiters 70), which is 45% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, Braintrust AIR 62 to SmartRecruiters 48.
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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, SmartRecruiters 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 | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · SmartRecruiters 70
2.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · SmartRecruiters 48
1.7 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · SmartRecruiters 45
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.9 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · SmartRecruiters 78
0.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -3.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.0 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 -3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 78 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 62 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 63 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 62 (D) | -3 | -3.7 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 11 | 2 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 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