§ The result
BrightHire leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, BrightHire opens an 18-point lead on Emi, 51 to 33, with both scored in the Screening cohort. Of the 7 criteria Emi wins none, and the narrowest lead BrightHire holds is on Post-Market Monitoring, BrightHire 42 to Emi 35. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (BrightHire 50, Emi 18, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 31% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 7 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
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
§ The record
BrightHire and Emi 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 and Colorado AI Act. Only BrightHire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BrightHire | Emi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AR |
| Founded | 2019 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Emi 18
5.8 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Emi 28
4.8 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Emi 44
2.4 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Emi 44
1.9 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Emi 25
1.6 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Emi 48
1.1 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Emi 35
0.8 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Emi.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Emi | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 28 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 18 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 25 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 44 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 44 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 33 (F) | +18 | +18.5 |
§ 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 | Emi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 19 | 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; Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Emi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 49 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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