§ The result
4 points separate hireEZ and Brazen.
hireEZ (Sourcing) edges Brazen (Screening) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 42 to 38. hireEZ leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while Brazen leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 3 are level. Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brazen 45, hireEZ 60 — and at a 15% weight it carries 57% of the weighted advantage hireEZ holds across the 3 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
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
§ The record
Brazen is filed under Screening AI, hireEZ under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Brazen is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brazen | hireEZ |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · hireEZ 60
2.3 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · hireEZ 58
1.4 weighted points to hireEZ
20% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · hireEZ 38
0.4 weighted points to Brazen
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · hireEZ 58
0.2 weighted points to hireEZ
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -3.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus hireEZ.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | hireEZ | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 42 (F) | -4 | -3.5 |
§ 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 | hireEZ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 9 | 5 | 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; hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 27 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next