Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
ADP vs Employment Hero
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
Employment Hero
SmartMatch is Employment Hero's AI candidate-matching engine. Since March 2026 it has been surfaced through Find Talent and ATS applicant scoring, where it ranks job seekers and applicants against employer criteria and feeds a Recruitment Agent that auto-shortlists candidates and runs AI video and phone screening interviews.
Substantial gaps
Screening
The result
ADP and Employment Hero tie at 48.
ADP, filed under ATS-integrated, and Employment Hero, filed under Screening, tie at 48 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. ADP leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Employment Hero 4, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ADP 46, Employment Hero 35 — and at an 18% weight it carries 73% of the weighted advantage ADP holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- ADP3
- Employment Hero4
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency46 vs 35
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
ADP is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Employment Hero under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only Employment Hero is in scope of
| Record | ADP | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 1949 | 2014 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight39% of the movement so far
ADP46Employment Hero352.0 weighted points to ADP
- 2
Human Oversight Design
12% weight55% of the movement so far
ADP55Employment Hero620.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
- 3
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight67% of the movement so far
ADP53Employment Hero500.6 weighted points to ADP
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight79% of the movement so far
ADP28Employment Hero320.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight91% of the movement so far
ADP45Employment Hero500.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight97% of the movement so far
ADP58Employment Hero620.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
- 7
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight100% of the movement so far
ADP57Employment Hero560.1 weighted points to ADP
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.4.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Employment Hero, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 50 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 35 | +11 | +2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 32 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 56 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 48F | 48F | - | +0.4 |
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 | ADP | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 58 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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