§ The result
BrightHire leads Willo by 10 points.
BrightHire sits 10 points above Willo under rubric v1.0 — 51 against 41 — with BrightHire filed under Screening and Willo under Video interview. BrightHire leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Willo leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (BrightHire 50, Willo 30, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 34% 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
Willo
Willo is a browser-based asynchronous (one-way) video interview platform that lets employers collect recorded video, audio, multiple-choice and written candidate responses, then uses AI to transcribe, summarize, rank candidates against employer-defined "Blueprint" criteria, and flag scripted or AI-generated answers.
§ The record
BrightHire is filed under Screening AI, Willo 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 | Willo |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Willo 30
3.6 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Willo 38
2.8 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 75% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Willo 25
1.6 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Willo 53
1.1 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Willo 36
0.7 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Willo 54
0.6 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Willo 62
0.2 weighted points to Willo
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +10.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Willo.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Willo | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 38 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 25 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 53 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 36 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 41 (F) | +10 | +10.2 |
§ 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 | Willo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 5 | 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; Willo has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 37 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for Willo, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Willo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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