§ The result
Bryq leads Phenom by 5 points.
Bryq scores 57 and Phenom 52 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Bryq leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Phenom leads 3, including Bias Audit Transparency. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bryq 55, Phenom 30 — and at a 12% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 4 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
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
§ The record
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, Phenom under Candidate sourcing 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 | Phenom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Phenom 30
3.0 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 64% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Phenom 25
2.3 weighted points to Bryq
18% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Phenom 75
0.9 weighted points to Phenom
8% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Phenom 55
0.9 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Phenom 60
0.7 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Phenom 60
0.3 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Phenom 55
0.2 weighted points to Phenom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +4.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +4.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Phenom.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Phenom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 75 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 60 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 30 | +25 | +3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 52 (F) | +5 | +4.6 |
§ 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 | Phenom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 0 | 1 | — |
| 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 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 8 | 2 | 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; Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 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 Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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