Arctic Shores vs Bryq

Arctic Shores provides task-based psychometric assessments to help employers evaluate candidates’ potential. Rather than asking questions, its assessments use interactive tasks and measure candidate behaviour during them. The platform assesses Personality and Workplace Intelligence, which Arctic Shores describes as its answer to Cognitive Ability. Recruiters can assemble assessments with drag-and-drop tools, choose psychologist-designed options, or get help from the company’s team. Candidate and recruiter resources include round-the-clock user support, instant feedback reports, candidate reports, campaign dashboard scores, interview guides, and assessment branding. Listed ATS integrations include Greenhouse, SmartRecruiters, Teamtailor, Tribepad, Willo, and Eploy; a standard API is another connection route when an ATS marketplace integration is unavailable. Arctic Shores says it complies with GDPR, UK GDPR, and the Data Protection Act 2018, is ISO 27001 certified, and encrypts customer data at rest using AES-256. The paid service runs on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. Pricing is available on request.

Bryq is a talent assessment platform for HR teams that combines cognitive ability, personality traits, hard skills, and AI fluency in a candidate profile. Customers can combine cognitive, personality, and skills assessments in one test. Its AI Fluency Assessment examines task strategy, prompting, critical evaluation, ethical use, and workflow integration. Bryq says its cognitive and personality assessments draw on the Big Five, 16pf, and CHC intelligence models and were developed with organizational psychologists. Self-service ATS integrations include Workable, Greenhouse, Lever, Teamtailor, BreezyHR, Recruitee, Pinpoint, Ashby, JazzHR, SmartCV, Zoho Recruit, and Comeet. Enterprise adds guided integrations and optional custom integrations. An MCP connection allows compatible assistants to answer candidate questions with read-only access governed by existing permissions. Bryq lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR compliance. Pro costs $69 per month, billed annually at $828 with a one-year commitment; free access is available through a free-forever plan or trial up to 15 days.