§ The result
2 points separate Employment Hero and Brainner.
Under rubric v1.0, Employment Hero and Brainner finish 2 points apart, 48 to 46, as two Screening entries. Employment Hero leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Human Oversight Design, while Brainner leads 2, including Bias Audit Transparency. Human Oversight Design is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Brainner 50, Employment Hero 62 — and at a 12% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
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
Brainner and Employment Hero are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Sourcing and ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Employment Hero is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2023 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Employment Hero 62
1.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Employment Hero 35
1.3 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Employment Hero 50
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Employment Hero 56
0.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Employment Hero 50
0.4 weighted points to Brainner
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Employment Hero 62
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Employment Hero 32
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -1.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 56 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 48 (F) | -2 | -1.4 |
§ 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 | Brainner | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 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 Brainner sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 72 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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