§ The result
Lever leads Brazen on all 7 criteria.
Lever sits 11 points above Brazen under rubric v1.0 — 49 against 38 — with Lever filed under ATS-integrated and Brazen under Screening. Lever is ahead of Brazen on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Customer Documentation at Brazen 55 to Lever 58. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Human Oversight Design (Brazen 46, Lever 60) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Brazen 40, Lever 52), the second being 23% of the weighted advantage Lever 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
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
§ The record
Brazen is filed under Screening AI, Lever under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | Lever |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · Lever 52
2.4 weighted points to Lever
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · Lever 42
2.2 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · Lever 58
1.9 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · Lever 60
1.7 weighted points to Lever
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · Lever 32
1.1 weighted points to Lever
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · Lever 45
0.8 weighted points to Lever
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · Lever 58
0.2 weighted points to Lever
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -10.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus Lever.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | Lever | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 52 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 58 | -13 | -1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 60 | -14 | -1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 45 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 49 (F) | -11 | -10.3 |
§ 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 | Lever | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Lever has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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