Purehire vs BrightHire

Overview

BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that focuses exclusively on improving the quality of live interviews. It integrates with tools such as Zoom to record interviews, transcribe them, and provide searchable transcripts and highlights. The platform helps hiring teams revisit conversations, train interviewers, and reduce bias using structured guides. However, BrightHire does not manage sourcing, resume screening, or onboarding and is designed as an add-on layer that enhances only the interview stage.

Purehire incorporates all of BrightHire’s intelligence features and expands them into a complete recruitment system. In addition to live interview recording and analytics, Purehire manages sourcing, resume analysis, scheduling, offers, and onboarding. It applies AI throughout the hiring process, ensuring that insights gained during interviews are connected to earlier and later stages in the hiring cycle.

Feature / Aspect	Purehire	BrightHire
Live Interview Recording & Transcripts	Records interviews on-platform or via integration, with automatic transcription attached to candidate profiles. Transcripts are searchable and linked to candidate records.	Records audio and video, typically via Zoom, and produces transcripts. Teams can replay interviews or questions for debriefing.
AI Highlights & Summaries	Automatically generates notes, identifies key moments, extracts clips, and provides AI-written summaries for each answer.	Allows manual tagging and highlighting during or after interviews. Some NLP features detect topics, but no AI-written summaries or recommendations.
Structured Feedback & Scorecards	Enables interviewers to rate answers and competencies during interviews. Combines AI and human scores for a unified view, with multiple panellists submitting feedback side by side.	Provides a scorecard interface for reviewers to rate candidates while referencing transcripts. Feedback is human-driven and not AI-generated.
Interviewer Coaching	Monitors interviewer behaviour, alerts when questions are skipped or when speaking time is disproportionate, and provides coaching tips.	Provides transcripts to help managers give feedback. It can highlight missed topics or possible bias, but does not automatically quantify behaviors.
Integration in Workflow	Fully integrated within the recruitment system. Transcripts, highlights, and next steps are linked to candidate progress, reducing context switching.	Operates on top of an ATS. Interview review happens in BrightHire, while advancing candidates requires the use of the ATS.
Scope Beyond Interviews	Covers sourcing, screening, interviewing, offers, and onboarding, with AI insights connected across all stages.	Focused only on the interview stage. Other recruitment tasks must be managed in external systems.

Observations

Focus vs Breadth

BrightHire specialises in improving interviews only.

Purehire integrates interview intelligence as one part of a broader end-to-end system.

AI Insights

Purehire generates automated summaries, highlights, and recommended actions.

BrightHire relies primarily on manual tagging and human interpretation of transcripts.

Workflow Integration

Purehire links transcripts and insights directly into the candidate pipeline.

BrightHire requires context-switching between its interface and an ATS.

Candidate Journey

Purehire connects interviews with sourcing, screening, offers, and onboarding.

BrightHire enhances interview quality but has no role beyond that stage.

Interviewer Development

Purehire provides AI-driven coaching and behaviour monitoring.

BrightHire surfaces issues through transcripts but does not quantify or automate feedback.