§ The result
Criteria takes the total, BrightHire takes more of the criteria.
Criteria (Assessment) edges BrightHire (Screening) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 53 to 51. BrightHire leads more of the criteria than Criteria — 4 to 2 — but Article 11 Technical Documentation, which Criteria leads, carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Criteria. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BrightHire 52, Criteria 68 — and at a 20% weight it carries 91% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 2 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
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, Criteria 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 | Criteria |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2006 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Criteria 68
3.2 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Criteria 32
0.6 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Criteria 56
0.5 weighted points to BrightHire
18% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Criteria 48
0.4 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Criteria 62
0.3 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Criteria 60
0.2 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.1 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 -1.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Criteria.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Criteria | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 68 | -16 | -3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 48 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 32 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 53 (F) | -2 | -1.9 |
§ 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 | Criteria | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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