§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads VidCruiter on 4 of the 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR, filed under Screening, comes out 11 points above VidCruiter, filed under Video interview: 59 against 48 under rubric v1.0. VidCruiter is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Braintrust AIR takes 4, the remaining 3 are level, and the nearest of those 4 is FRIA Support, Braintrust AIR 35 to VidCruiter 32. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Braintrust AIR 75, VidCruiter 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 61% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 4 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
VidCruiter
VidCruiter is an enterprise recruitment platform combining live and pre-recorded video interviewing, structured interview workflows, automated scheduling, skills testing, automated reference checks, and AI features such as transcript-based AI Interview Scoring, AI Interview Notes, and AI fraud detection.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, VidCruiter under Video interview 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 | VidCruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | CA |
| Founded | 2018 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · VidCruiter 38
6.7 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · VidCruiter 33
3.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · VidCruiter 32
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · VidCruiter 60
0.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +10.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +10.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus VidCruiter.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | VidCruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 38 | +37 | +6.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 32 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 56 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 33 | +29 | +3.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 48 (F) | +11 | +10.8 |
§ 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 | VidCruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 1 | Sources 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 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 12 | 6 | 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; VidCruiter has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 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 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for VidCruiter, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- VidCruiter last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next