§ The result
2 points separate BrightHire and Oracle Recruiting.
BrightHire (Screening) edges Oracle Recruiting (ATS-integrated) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 51 to 49. BrightHire leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Oracle Recruiting leads 1, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 3 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BrightHire 50, Oracle Recruiting 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 90% 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
Oracle Recruiting
Oracle Recruiting (part of Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, formerly Oracle Recruiting Cloud) is an enterprise applicant tracking system whose embedded AI suggests and ranks candidates, finds similar candidates, and generates 0-5 generative-AI match ratings against job requisitions to assist recruiters.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, Oracle Recruiting 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 | Oracle Recruiting |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 1977 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 64% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Oracle Recruiting 30
3.6 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Oracle Recruiting 60
1.6 weighted points to Oracle Recruiting
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Oracle Recruiting 40
0.2 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Oracle Recruiting 35
0.1 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +2.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.6 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 +2.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Oracle Recruiting.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Oracle Recruiting | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 35 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 40 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 49 (F) | +2 | +2.4 |
§ 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 | Oracle Recruiting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 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; Oracle Recruiting has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 16 for Oracle Recruiting, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Oracle Recruiting last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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