§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Talkpush on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 scores the Screening entries Braintrust AIR and Talkpush at 59 and 46, a gap of 13 points. Braintrust AIR leads every one of the 7 criteria, Talkpush none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, Braintrust AIR 63 to Talkpush 60. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Braintrust AIR 75, Talkpush 42) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 46% 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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR and Talkpush are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | HK |
| Founded | 2018 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Talkpush 42
5.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Talkpush 46
1.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Talkpush 44
1.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Talkpush 52
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Talkpush 27
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Talkpush 56
0.7 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Talkpush 60
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 42 | +33 | +5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 44 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 46 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 46 (F) | +13 | +13.0 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 21 | 7 | 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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