§ The result
Greenhouse leads BrightHire on all 7 criteria.
Greenhouse finishes 16 points clear of BrightHire under rubric v1.0 — 67 (D) against 51 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Greenhouse leads every one of the 7 criteria, BrightHire none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Customer Documentation, BrightHire 62 to Greenhouse 64. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BrightHire 50, Greenhouse 86 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Greenhouse 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
Greenhouse
End-to-end applicant tracking system and structured-hiring platform, now layered with 'Greenhouse AI' features such as resume parsing, Talent Matching, and interview summarisation.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, Greenhouse under ATS-integrated 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 | Greenhouse |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Greenhouse 86
6.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Greenhouse 78
5.2 weighted points to Greenhouse
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Greenhouse 58
1.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Greenhouse 42
0.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Greenhouse 66
0.7 weighted points to Greenhouse
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Greenhouse 64
0.6 weighted points to Greenhouse
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Greenhouse 64
0.2 weighted points to Greenhouse
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Greenhouse.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Greenhouse | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 78 | -26 | -5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 86 | -36 | -6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 42 | -6 | -0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 64 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 66 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 67 (D) | -16 | -16.0 |
§ 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 | Greenhouse | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 2 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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 | 16 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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; Greenhouse has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; some documentation or audit rows for Greenhouse sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 17 for Greenhouse, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Greenhouse last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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