§ The result
Bryq leads Pillar on all 7 criteria.
Bryq finishes 17 points clear of Pillar under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 40 — across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Bryq leads every one of the 7 criteria, Pillar none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Bryq 54 to Pillar 48. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Bryq 70, Pillar 38, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 34% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 7 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
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
§ The record
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, Pillar under Screening 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 | Pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 34% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Pillar 38
5.8 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Pillar 33
2.6 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Pillar 45
2.5 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Pillar 42
2.4 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Pillar 30
1.5 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Pillar 50
1.3 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Pillar 48
0.7 weighted points to Bryq
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 Bryq minus Pillar.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Pillar | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 42 | +12 | +2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 38 | +32 | +5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 45 | +17 | +2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 48 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 33 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 40 (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 | Bryq | Pillar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | 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 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 7 | 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; Pillar has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 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 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 19 for Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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