§ The result
2 points separate Bryq and iCIMS.
Bryq (Assessment) edges iCIMS (ATS-integrated) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 57 to 55. Bryq leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while iCIMS leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bryq 55, iCIMS 42 — and at a 12% weight it carries 45% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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
iCIMS
Enterprise talent-acquisition / applicant tracking platform (the iCIMS Talent Cloud) that adds optional AI features - Candidate Ranking, Talent Match, and a GPT-powered Copilot - to source, rank, and engage candidates.
§ The record
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, iCIMS under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Bryq is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | iCIMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2000 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · iCIMS 42
1.6 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · iCIMS 56
0.9 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · iCIMS 58
0.8 weighted points to iCIMS
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · iCIMS 58
0.5 weighted points to iCIMS
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · iCIMS 68
0.4 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · iCIMS 62
0.3 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · iCIMS 38
0.3 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +2.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus iCIMS.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | iCIMS | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 68 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 55 (F) | +2 | +2.2 |
§ 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 | Bryq | iCIMS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 21 | 3 | 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; iCIMS has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 21 with a source URL, 3 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 24 for iCIMS, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- iCIMS last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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