§ The result
4 points separate BrightHire and Gloat.
BrightHire (Screening) edges Gloat (Sourcing) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 51 to 47. BrightHire leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Gloat leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 2 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BrightHire 50, Gloat 38 — and at an 18% weight it carries 48% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 4 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
Gloat
Gloat is an AI-powered internal talent marketplace and "agentic HR" platform that matches an employer's existing employees to internal job openings, gigs, projects, mentorships, and learning based on inferred skills and career goals.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, Gloat under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Assessment.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BrightHire | Gloat |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Gloat 38
2.2 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Gloat 28
1.2 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Gloat 48
0.8 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Gloat 58
0.3 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Gloat 62
0.2 weighted points to Gloat
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +4.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Gloat.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Gloat | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 48 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 28 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 47 (F) | +4 | +4.2 |
§ 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 | Gloat | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 21 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Gloat has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 8 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 29 for Gloat, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Gloat last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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