§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Workstream on all 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR finishes 20 points clear of Workstream inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 59 against 39. Braintrust AIR leads every one of the 7 criteria, Workstream none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Braintrust AIR 62 to Workstream 61. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Braintrust AIR 75, Workstream 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% 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
Workstream
Workstream is a mobile-first HR, payroll and hiring platform for hourly, multi-location employers such as QSR franchisees. Its hiring suite pairs a text-to-apply applicant tracking system with VoiceAI phone screens and VideoAI asynchronous video interviews, which return transcripts, AI summaries, pass/fail results for each question and match scores.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR and Workstream are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Workstream |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Workstream 20
9.9 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Workstream 40
3.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Workstream 35
3.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Workstream 47
1.3 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Workstream 27
1.2 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Workstream 56
0.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Workstream 61
0.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +20.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Workstream.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Workstream | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 40 | +18 | +3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 20 | +55 | +9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 47 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 61 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 35 | +27 | +3.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 56 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 39 (F) | +20 | +20.0 |
§ 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 | Workstream | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 28 | 6 | 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; Workstream has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR and Workstream sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 34 for Workstream, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workstream last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next