§ The result
Bryq leads Recruit CRM by 17 points.
Bryq finishes 17 points clear of Recruit CRM under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 40 — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Bryq: Bryq is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Recruit CRM on Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Bryq 70, Recruit CRM 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 53% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, Recruit CRM under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Bryq is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | Not recorded |
§ 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 · Recruit CRM 20
9.0 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Recruit CRM 34
4.0 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Recruit CRM 42
1.6 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Recruit CRM 54
1.2 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Recruit CRM 34
0.9 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Recruit CRM 58
0.5 weighted points to Recruit CRM
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Recruit CRM 60
0.5 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.6 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 +16.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 34 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 20 | +50 | +9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 34 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 58 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 40 (F) | +17 | +16.7 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 30 | 5 | 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; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Bryq and Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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