§ The result
3 points separate Braintrust AIR and Workday Recruiting AI.
Braintrust AIR holds a 3-point edge over Workday Recruiting AI under rubric v1.0, 59 to 56, across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to Braintrust AIR and Workday Recruiting AI, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side Braintrust AIR holds, headed by Post-Market Monitoring, settle the total. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Braintrust AIR 62, Workday Recruiting AI 35 — and at a 12% weight it carries 53% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 3 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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Workday Recruiting AI 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 | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
3.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
2.7 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
2.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +3.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.0 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 +3.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 60 | +15 | +2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +3.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 65 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 56 (F) | +3 | +3.2 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources 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; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 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 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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