§ The result
BrightHire leads Brazen on all 7 criteria.
BrightHire sits 13 points above Brazen under rubric v1.0, 51 against 38, with both filed under Screening. BrightHire leads every one of the 7 criteria, Brazen none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Brazen 38 to BrightHire 42. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Brazen 30, BrightHire 50, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 29% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
§ The record
Brazen and BrightHire 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 | Brazen | BrightHire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · BrightHire 50
3.6 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · BrightHire 52
2.4 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · BrightHire 60
2.3 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · BrightHire 60
1.7 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · BrightHire 36
1.6 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · BrightHire 62
0.6 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · BrightHire 42
0.5 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.6 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 -12.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus BrightHire.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | BrightHire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 50 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 36 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 51 (F) | -13 | -12.6 |
§ 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 | Brazen | BrightHire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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