§ The result
BrightHire leads Cappfinity on all 7 criteria.
BrightHire sits 11 points above Cappfinity under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 40 — with BrightHire filed under Screening and Cappfinity under Assessment. BrightHire leads every one of the 7 criteria, Cappfinity none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, BrightHire 42 to Cappfinity 38. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (BrightHire 50, Cappfinity 28, 18% weight), is only 34% of the weighted advantage BrightHire builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
Cappfinity
Cappfinity sells strengths-, skills- and cognitive-reasoning assessments, task-based job simulations, a digital assessment centre and an asynchronous video interview platform with optional AI-assisted scoring, and is used mainly for graduate and early-careers hiring.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, Cappfinity 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 | BrightHire | Cappfinity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Cappfinity 28
4.0 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Cappfinity 36
3.2 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Cappfinity 28
1.2 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Cappfinity 52
1.2 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Cappfinity 52
1.0 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Cappfinity 38
0.5 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Cappfinity 56
0.5 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.5 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 +11.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Cappfinity.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Cappfinity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 36 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 28 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 28 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 40 (F) | +11 | +11.5 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | Cappfinity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Cappfinity has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cappfinity sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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