§ The result
Employment Hero leads Brazen on all 7 criteria.
Both filed under Screening, Employment Hero and Brazen come out 48 and 38 under rubric v1.0, 10 points in favour of Employment Hero. Employment Hero is ahead of Brazen on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at Brazen 30 to Employment Hero 35. Human Oversight Design is the widest raw gap (Brazen 46, Employment Hero 62) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Brazen 40, Employment Hero 50), 21% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
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
Brazen and Employment Hero are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brazen | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2007 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 21% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · Employment Hero 50
2.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · Employment Hero 62
1.9 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 59% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · Employment Hero 56
1.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · Employment Hero 50
1.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · Employment Hero 32
1.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · Employment Hero 35
0.9 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · Employment Hero 62
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -9.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 50 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 56 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 62 | -16 | -1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 50 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 48 (F) | -10 | -9.5 |
§ 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 | Brazen | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 0 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 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.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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