§ The result
BrightHire leads Talkpush by 5 points.
BrightHire scores 51 and Talkpush 46 under rubric v1.0 — a 5-point gap inside the Screening cohort. BrightHire leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while Talkpush leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Data Governance Disclosure is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BrightHire 60, Talkpush 44 — and at a 15% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 5 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
Talkpush
Talkpush is a conversational recruitment CRM and applicant tracking system for high-volume hiring that screens candidates over WhatsApp, Messenger, SMS and voice using chatbots, automated workflows (Autoflow), an AI English-proficiency assessment (TalkScore) and an outbound AI voice agent.
§ The record
BrightHire and Talkpush are both filed under Screening 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 | Talkpush |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | HK |
| Founded | 2019 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Talkpush 44
2.4 weighted points to BrightHire
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Talkpush 42
1.4 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Talkpush 27
1.3 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Talkpush 56
0.5 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Talkpush 46
0.5 weighted points to Talkpush
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Talkpush 60
0.2 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Talkpush.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Talkpush | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 52 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 27 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 44 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 46 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 46 (F) | +5 | +5.3 |
§ 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 | Talkpush | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 21 | 7 | Sources 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; Talkpush has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Talkpush sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 28 for Talkpush, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Talkpush last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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