§ The result
Employment Hero leads Draup on all 7 criteria.
Employment Hero scores 48 and Draup 42 under rubric v1.0, a 6-point gap across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. Employment Hero leads every one of the 7 criteria, Draup none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Draup 48 to Employment Hero 50. One criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, is both the widest raw gap (Draup 28, Employment Hero 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 12% weight it makes up 47% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Draup
Draup is an AI-powered talent- and sales-intelligence platform that aggregates over a billion public professional profiles into skills, roles and labour-market analytics, and surfaces ranked candidate shortlists for enterprise workforce planning and recruiting.
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
Draup is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Employment Hero under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Employment Hero is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Draup | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 2017 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Draup 28 · Employment Hero 50
2.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Draup 25 · Employment Hero 32
1.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Draup 58 · Employment Hero 62
0.5 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Draup 48 · Employment Hero 50
0.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Draup 57 · Employment Hero 62
0.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Draup 33 · Employment Hero 35
0.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Draup 54 · Employment Hero 56
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -5.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.6 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 -5.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Draup minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Draup | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 50 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 33 | 35 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 56 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 57 | 62 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 48 (F) | -6 | -5.6 |
§ 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 | Draup | Employment Hero | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 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% | 2 | 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% | 23 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Draup has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 23 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; some documentation or audit rows for Draup sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 30 for Draup, across 2 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Draup last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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