§ The result
1 point separates Bryq and Harver.
Within the Assessment cohort, Bryq edges Harver by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 57 to 56. Bryq leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Harver leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. The heaviest weighted swing runs the other way — Harver takes Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20%, Bryq 54 to Harver 65, 55% of the weighted advantage Harver holds — while the widest raw gap sits on Post-Market Monitoring, Bryq 55 to Harver 40.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
Vendor profile
Harver
Pre-employment assessment suite covering cognitive ability, behavioral, and situational judgement, including the legacy Pymetrics games product.
§ The record
Bryq and Harver are both filed under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Harver |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2017 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Harver 65
2.2 weighted points to Harver
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Harver 80
1.8 weighted points to Harver
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Harver 40
1.8 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Harver 55
1.1 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Harver 35
0.8 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Harver 50
0.5 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Harver 60
0.5 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +0.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Harver.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Harver | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 65 | -11 | -2.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 80 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 50 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 40 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 56 (F) | +1 | +0.6 |
§ 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 | Bryq | Harver | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 10 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Harver has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 0 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Bryq sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 10 for Harver, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Harver last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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