§ The result
3 points separate BrightHire and Jobylon.
BrightHire (Screening) edges Jobylon (ATS-integrated) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 51 to 48. Jobylon takes 2 of the 7 criteria, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them, against 3 for BrightHire, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (BrightHire 50, Jobylon 28) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 90% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 3 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
Jobylon
Jobylon is a Stockholm-based applicant tracking system and talent CRM for enterprise employers whose optional AI features score each applicant's CV against the job description, suggest existing candidates for other open roles, draft job ads and screening questions, and run candidate screening and interview scheduling over WhatsApp, SMS and email.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, Jobylon 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 | Jobylon |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | SE |
| Founded | 2019 | 2011 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Jobylon 28
4.0 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Jobylon 55
0.6 weighted points to Jobylon
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Jobylon 45
0.4 weighted points to Jobylon
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Jobylon 58
0.3 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Jobylon 60
0.2 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +3.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +3 beside that +3.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Jobylon.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Jobylon | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 28 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 36 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 48 (F) | +3 | +3.5 |
§ 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 | Jobylon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Jobylon has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 33 for Jobylon, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Jobylon last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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