§ The result
4 points separate BrightHire and isolved.
BrightHire holds a 4-point edge over isolved under rubric v1.0, 51 to 47, across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. isolved takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 6 for BrightHire, whose share includes Data Governance Disclosure. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (BrightHire 60, isolved 53, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 24% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 6 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
isolved
isolved is a US HCM and payroll provider whose isolved Talent Acquisition applicant tracking system (formerly ApplicantPro) uses AI Candidate Matching to score each applicant's resume against the job description and sort the applicant list, alongside AI job-ad writing and WedgeHR-powered one-way video interviews.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, isolved 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 | isolved |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 1986 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · isolved 53
1.1 weighted points to BrightHire
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · isolved 45
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 58% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · isolved 30
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · isolved 55
0.6 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · isolved 47
0.6 weighted points to isolved
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · isolved 56
0.5 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · isolved 50
0.4 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.9 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 +3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus isolved.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | isolved | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 53 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 47 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 47 (F) | +4 | +3.7 |
§ 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 | isolved | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 5 | 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; isolved has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for isolved sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 36 for isolved, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- isolved last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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