§ The result
BrightHire leads CoderPad by 9 points.
Under rubric v1.0, BrightHire, filed under Screening, finishes on 51 and CoderPad, filed under Assessment, on 42, 9 points apart. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of BrightHire: BrightHire is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and CoderPad on Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BrightHire 50, CoderPad 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
CoderPad
CoderPad is a technical hiring platform that auto-scores and ranks candidates on coding assessments (Screen), uses an AI reviewer to evaluate and rank applicants' asynchronous video pre-screen responses against employer criteria (Qualify), and hosts live collaborative coding interviews with AI assistance, note-taking and summaries (Interview).
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, CoderPad 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 | CoderPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · CoderPad 20
5.4 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · CoderPad 45
1.4 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · CoderPad 28
1.2 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · CoderPad 54
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · CoderPad 57
0.4 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · CoderPad 58
0.3 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · CoderPad 44
0.2 weighted points to CoderPad
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +9.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +9.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus CoderPad.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | CoderPad | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 45 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 20 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 28 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 57 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 44 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 42 (F) | +9 | +9.3 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | CoderPad | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 32 | 6 | 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; CoderPad has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for CoderPad sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 38 for CoderPad, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- CoderPad last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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