§ The result
2 points separate Employment Hero and Darwinbox.
Employment Hero (Screening) edges Darwinbox (ATS-integrated) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 46. Employment Hero leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Darwinbox leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. Darwinbox takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Darwinbox 60, Employment Hero 50), 87% of the weighted advantage it builds, while the widest raw gap is on Post-Market Monitoring, Darwinbox 35 to Employment Hero 50.
Vendor profile
Darwinbox
Darwinbox is an enterprise HCM suite whose recruitment module uses Darwinbox Sense AI (now sold inside its Cortex agent platform) to parse resumes, stack-rank and recommend candidates with stated fit reasoning, run screening and shortlisting agents, and give candidates an assistant for job matching, interview details and FAQs.
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
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Employment Hero under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
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 | Darwinbox | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | AU |
| Founded | 2015 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · Employment Hero 50
2.0 weighted points to Darwinbox
12% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · Employment Hero 50
1.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · Employment Hero 35
1.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · Employment Hero 62
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · Employment Hero 62
0.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · Employment Hero 32
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · Employment Hero 56
0.3 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -2.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.9 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 -2.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 32 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 56 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 48 (F) | -2 | -2.3 |
§ 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 | Darwinbox | 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% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 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% | 3 | 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% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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