§ The result
HeyMilo leads Darwinbox by 15 points.
HeyMilo finishes 15 points clear of Darwinbox under rubric v1.0 — 61 (D) against 46 (F) — across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of HeyMilo: HeyMilo is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Darwinbox on Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Darwinbox 28, HeyMilo 83) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 64% of the weighted advantage HeyMilo holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
HeyMilo
HeyMilo is an AI recruiter for high-volume hiring whose voice and video AI agent conducts and scores async and live conversational screening interviews against recruiter-defined rubrics and syncs results to the customer's ATS.
§ The record
Darwinbox is filed under ATS-integrated AI, HeyMilo 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 HeyMilo is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Darwinbox | HeyMilo |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2023 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Darwinbox 28 · HeyMilo 83
9.9 weighted points to HeyMilo
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Darwinbox 30 · HeyMilo 42
1.8 weighted points to HeyMilo
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Darwinbox 35 · HeyMilo 46
1.3 weighted points to HeyMilo
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Darwinbox 55 · HeyMilo 64
1.1 weighted points to HeyMilo
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Darwinbox 57 · HeyMilo 66
0.7 weighted points to HeyMilo
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Darwinbox 58 · HeyMilo 62
0.6 weighted points to HeyMilo
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Darwinbox 60 · HeyMilo 58
0.4 weighted points to Darwinbox
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.8 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 -15.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Darwinbox minus HeyMilo.
| Category | Weight | Darwinbox | HeyMilo | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 83 | -55 | -9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 42 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 64 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 46 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 66 | -9 | -0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 61 (D) | -15 | -15.0 |
§ 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 | HeyMilo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Darwinbox has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; HeyMilo has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HeyMilo sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Darwinbox, across 1 distinct source domain, and 21 for HeyMilo, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Darwinbox last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HeyMilo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next