§ The result
Checkr leads Employment Hero on 4 of the 7 criteria.
Checkr scores 54 and Employment Hero 48 under rubric v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the Screening cohort. Checkr leads 4 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 3 are level, so Employment Hero is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 4 Checkr leads is Human Oversight Design, Checkr 66 to Employment Hero 62. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Checkr 70, Employment Hero 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 68% of the weighted advantage Checkr holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Checkr
Checkr is an FCRA-regulated background screening platform that uses machine learning to parse, classify and standardize criminal, employment, education and motor-vehicle records, and to route them through customer-configured adjudication rulesets that flag candidates as eligible, review or escalated for employment decisions.
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
Checkr and Employment Hero are both filed under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | Checkr | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2014 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Checkr 70 · Employment Hero 50
4.0 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · Employment Hero 56
0.9 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · Employment Hero 62
0.5 weighted points to Checkr
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · Employment Hero 62
0.5 weighted points to Checkr
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to +5.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +5.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 50 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 32 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 62 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 62 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 48 (F) | +6 | +5.9 |
§ 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 | Checkr | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 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 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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