§ The result
BrightHire leads Zappyhire on all 7 criteria.
BrightHire finishes 17 points clear of Zappyhire inside the Screening cohort under rubric v1.0: 51 against 34. BrightHire leads every one of the 7 criteria, Zappyhire none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, BrightHire 60 to Zappyhire 50. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (BrightHire 52, Zappyhire 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 26% 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
BrightHire and Zappyhire are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BrightHire | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IN |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Zappyhire 30
4.4 weighted points to BrightHire
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Zappyhire 28
4.0 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Zappyhire 42
2.7 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BrightHire 42 · Zappyhire 28
1.7 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Zappyhire 25
1.6 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Zappyhire 45
1.4 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Zappyhire 50
1.2 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +16.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 30 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 28 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 25 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 42 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 28 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 34 (F) | +17 | +16.9 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
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 Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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