§ The result
HiredScore takes the total, BrightHire takes more of the criteria.
HiredScore (Sourcing) edges BrightHire (Screening) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 52 to 51. BrightHire leads more of the criteria than HiredScore — 4 to 2 — but Article 11 Technical Documentation, which HiredScore leads, carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to HiredScore. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BrightHire 52, HiredScore 65 — and at a 20% weight it carries 74% of the weighted advantage HiredScore 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
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, HiredScore under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only BrightHire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BrightHire | HiredScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · HiredScore 65
2.6 weighted points to HiredScore
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · HiredScore 55
0.9 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · HiredScore 30
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · HiredScore 35
0.8 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · HiredScore 55
0.8 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · HiredScore 60
0.2 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -0.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus HiredScore.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | HiredScore | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 65 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 52 (F) | -1 | -0.9 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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