§ The result
Cangrade leads HeroHunt.ai on all 7 criteria.
Cangrade finishes 15 points clear of HeroHunt.ai under rubric v1.0 — 45 against 30 — across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. Cangrade takes all 7 criteria and HeroHunt.ai none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, Cangrade 56 to HeroHunt.ai 55. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Cangrade 52, HeroHunt.ai 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 44% of the weighted advantage Cangrade holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
Vendor profile
HeroHunt.ai
HeroHunt.ai's AI Recruiter (launched as Uwi) searches a claimed 1 billion+ professional profiles, scores and ranks them against a job description with language models, and sends AI-personalised outreach to the candidates a user approves.
§ The record
Cangrade is filed under Assessment AI, HeroHunt.ai under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado AI Act. Only Cangrade is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cangrade | HeroHunt.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | US | NL |
| Founded | 2014 | 2021 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cangrade 52 · HeroHunt.ai 20
6.4 weighted points to Cangrade
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cangrade 35 · HeroHunt.ai 10
4.5 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cangrade 54 · HeroHunt.ai 45
1.3 weighted points to Cangrade
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cangrade 62 · HeroHunt.ai 48
1.1 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cangrade 32 · HeroHunt.ai 28
0.5 weighted points to Cangrade
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cangrade 30 · HeroHunt.ai 27
0.4 weighted points to Cangrade
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cangrade 56 · HeroHunt.ai 55
0.1 weighted points to Cangrade
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +14.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cangrade minus HeroHunt.ai.
| Category | Weight | Cangrade | HeroHunt.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 20 | +32 | +6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 10 | +25 | +4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 27 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 45 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 28 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 30 (F) | +15 | +14.4 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | HeroHunt.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 3 | — | 2 | 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% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 10 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 documented absences; HeroHunt.ai has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cangrade and HeroHunt.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains, and 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next