§ The result
BrightHire leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
BrightHire finishes 21 points clear of XOR inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 51 against 30. BrightHire leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them; XOR leads none. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (BrightHire 52, XOR 20, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 30% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 7 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
BrightHire and XOR are both filed under Screening 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 | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · XOR 20
6.4 weighted points to BrightHire
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · XOR 18
5.8 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · XOR 42
2.7 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · XOR 40
2.4 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · XOR 25
1.6 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · XOR 48
1.1 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · XOR 33
1.1 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +21.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 20 | +32 | +6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 18 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 25 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 33 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 30 (F) | +21 | +21.1 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 11 | 7 | 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; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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