§ The result
BrightHire leads HireQuotient on all 7 criteria.
BrightHire finishes 17 points clear of HireQuotient under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 34 — across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. BrightHire leads every one of the 7 criteria, HireQuotient none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, BrightHire 60 to HireQuotient 57. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (BrightHire 50, HireQuotient 18, 18% weight), is only 34% of the weighted advantage BrightHire builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
HireQuotient
EasySource by HireQuotient is an AI recruiting platform for North American frontline employers that sources and scores candidates from LinkedIn, the open web and partner databases, verifies licences, automates outreach including AI voice calls, and adds an ATS, interview scheduling, and skills, cognitive and AI-scored video assessments.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, HireQuotient under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Assessment and 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 | HireQuotient |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | SG |
| Founded | 2019 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · HireQuotient 18
5.8 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · HireQuotient 35
3.4 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · HireQuotient 40
3.0 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · HireQuotient 22
2.1 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · HireQuotient 30
1.4 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · HireQuotient 50
1.0 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · HireQuotient 57
0.4 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +17.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus HireQuotient.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | HireQuotient | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 18 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 22 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 57 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 34 (F) | +17 | +17.0 |
§ 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 | HireQuotient | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 5 | 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; HireQuotient has 29 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 5 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 HireQuotient, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HireQuotient last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next