§ The result
2 points separate BrightHire and Jobma.
BrightHire (Screening) edges Jobma (Video interview) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 51 to 49. BrightHire leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Jobma leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 2 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BrightHire 50, Jobma 40 — and at an 18% weight it carries 71% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 3 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
Jobma
AI video interviewing platform offering one-way (pre-recorded), live, and agentic AI interviews with automated transcription and AI scoring of candidate video, audio, and written responses as recruiter decision-support.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, Jobma under Video interview 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 | Jobma |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Jobma 40
1.8 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Jobma 55
0.6 weighted points to Jobma
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Jobma 56
0.6 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Jobma 44
0.2 weighted points to Jobma
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Jobma 35
0.1 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +1.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Jobma.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Jobma | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 35 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 44 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 49 (F) | +2 | +1.7 |
§ 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 | Jobma | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 17 | 4 | 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; Jobma has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 44 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 21 for Jobma, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Jobma last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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