§ The result
2 points separate Pillar and Brazen.
Within the Screening cohort, Pillar edges Brazen by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 40 to 38. Pillar leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Brazen leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brazen 30, Pillar 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Pillar holds across the 4 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
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
§ The record
Brazen and Pillar are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brazen | Pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · Pillar 38
1.4 weighted points to Pillar
15% weight · 57% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · Pillar 30
0.8 weighted points to Pillar
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · Pillar 33
0.6 weighted points to Brazen
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · Pillar 42
0.4 weighted points to Pillar
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · Pillar 50
0.4 weighted points to Brazen
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · Pillar 48
0.2 weighted points to Pillar
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -1.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus Pillar.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | Pillar | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 38 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 48 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 40 (F) | -2 | -1.8 |
§ 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 | Pillar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 12 | 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; Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
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 Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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