§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Braintrust AIR scores 59 to 34 for Zappyhire, a 25-point gap between two Screening entries. Braintrust AIR leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; Zappyhire leads none. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Braintrust AIR 75, Zappyhire 28, 18% weight), is only 34% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR builds 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Braintrust AIR and Zappyhire 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 | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2018 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Zappyhire 28
8.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Zappyhire 30
5.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Zappyhire 28
4.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Zappyhire 42
2.1 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Zappyhire 25
1.5 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Zappyhire 50
1.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Zappyhire 45
1.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +24.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +25 beside that +24.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 30 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 28 | +47 | +8.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 42 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 28 | +34 | +4.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 45 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 34 (F) | +25 | +24.6 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 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; Zappyhire 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 and Zappyhire 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 Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next