§ The result
Bryq leads Testlify by 12 points.
Bryq sits 12 points above Testlify under rubric v1.0, 57 against 45, with both filed under Assessment. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Bryq: Bryq is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Testlify on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bryq 70, Testlify 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 61% 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
Testlify
Testlify is a skills-assessment and AI-interviewing platform that ranks candidates on a scored leaderboard from pre-built or AI-generated tests, with an AI résumé screener, AI-scored video, voice and chat interviews, and AI-assisted proctoring.
§ The record
Bryq and Testlify are both filed under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Testlify |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Testlify 30
7.2 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Testlify 42
1.6 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Testlify 33
1.1 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Testlify 55
1.1 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Testlify 60
0.5 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Testlify 52
0.4 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Testlify 55
0.1 weighted points to Testlify
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +11.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Testlify.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Testlify | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 52 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 30 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 33 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 42 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 45 (F) | +12 | +11.6 |
§ 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 | Testlify | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 4 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | Audit reportSources 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 | 5 | 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 | 31 | 5 | 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; Testlify has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 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 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 36 for Testlify, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Testlify last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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