§ The result
Bryq leads Lever by 8 points.
Bryq scores 57 and Lever 49 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. Bryq leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Lever leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bryq 70, Lever 42 — and at an 18% weight it carries 56% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 6 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
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
§ The record
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, Lever 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 | Lever |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 51% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Lever 42
5.0 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Lever 32
1.2 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Lever 45
1.2 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Lever 60
0.7 weighted points to Lever
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Lever 58
0.6 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Lever 58
0.6 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Lever 52
0.4 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Lever.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Lever | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 42 | +28 | +5.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 32 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 60 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 45 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 58 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 49 (F) | +8 | +8.4 |
§ 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 | Lever | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Lever has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Bryq and Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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