§ The result
Criteria leads Brazen on all 7 criteria.
Criteria finishes 15 points clear of Brazen under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 38 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Criteria leads every one of the 7 criteria, Brazen none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Brazen 38 to Criteria 42. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Brazen 40, Criteria 68, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage Criteria 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
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
§ The record
Brazen is filed under Screening AI, Criteria under Assessment 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 | Criteria |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2006 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · Criteria 68
5.6 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · Criteria 48
3.2 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · Criteria 62
2.5 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · Criteria 56
1.2 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · Criteria 32
1.1 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · Criteria 42
0.5 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · Criteria 60
0.4 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -14.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus Criteria.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | Criteria | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 68 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 48 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 56 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 53 (F) | -15 | -14.5 |
§ 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 | Criteria | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | 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 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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