§ The result
Bryq leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 27 points between Bryq (Assessment) and XOR (Screening): 57 for Bryq, 30 for XOR. Bryq leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; XOR leads none. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Bryq 70, XOR 18, 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
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, XOR under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2016 |
§ 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 · XOR 18
9.4 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · XOR 20
6.8 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · XOR 42
3.0 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · XOR 33
2.6 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · XOR 25
2.3 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · XOR 40
1.7 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · XOR 48
1.4 weighted points to Bryq
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +27.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 27.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +27 beside that +27.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 20 | +34 | +6.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 18 | +52 | +9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +3.0 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 40 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 33 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 48 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 30 (F) | +27 | +27.2 |
§ 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 | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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