§ The result
Alva Labs leads Employment Hero on all 7 criteria.
Alva Labs, filed under Assessment, comes out 13 points above Employment Hero, filed under Screening: 61 (D) against 48 (F) under rubric v1.0. Alva Labs leads every one of the 7 criteria, Employment Hero none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Alva Labs 63 to Employment Hero 62. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Alva Labs 78, Employment Hero 50 — and at a 20% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Alva Labs holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Alva Labs
Alva Labs sells a science-backed hiring platform whose core is a suite of proprietary psychometric assessments - an adaptive logic (general mental ability) test, a Five-Factor Model personality test, and coding tests - wrapped in candidate management, CV screening, and structured-interview tooling.
Vendor profile
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.
§ The record
Alva Labs is filed under Assessment AI, Employment Hero under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Alva Labs | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | SE | AU |
| Founded | 2017 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Alva Labs 78 · Employment Hero 50
5.6 weighted points to Alva Labs
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Alva Labs 58 · Employment Hero 35
4.1 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Alva Labs 68 · Employment Hero 56
1.8 weighted points to Alva Labs
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Alva Labs 38 · Employment Hero 32
0.9 weighted points to Alva Labs
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Alva Labs 68 · Employment Hero 62
0.5 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Alva Labs 52 · Employment Hero 50
0.2 weighted points to Alva Labs
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Alva Labs 63 · Employment Hero 62
0.1 weighted points to Alva Labs
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Alva Labs minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Alva Labs | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 50 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 35 | +23 | +4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 32 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 68 | 56 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 48 (F) | +13 | +13.3 |
§ 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 | Alva Labs | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Alva Labs has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Alva Labs sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Alva Labs, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Alva Labs last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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