§ The result
Employment Hero leads Emi on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Employment Hero opens a 15-point lead on Emi, 48 to 33, with both scored in the Screening cohort. Employment Hero takes all 7 criteria and Emi none of them; the nearest contest is FRIA Support, Emi 25 to Employment Hero 32. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Emi 28, Employment Hero 50, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 29% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Emi
Emi runs AI agents on WhatsApp, SMS and Messenger that screen and score frontline job applicants against employer-set criteria, schedule interviews, and collect hiring documents and check them against Mexican government databases.
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
Emi and Employment Hero are both filed 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 | Emi | Employment Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AR | AU |
| Founded | 2017 | 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
Emi 28 · Employment Hero 50
4.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Emi 18 · Employment Hero 35
3.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Emi 44 · Employment Hero 62
2.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Emi 44 · Employment Hero 56
1.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Emi 35 · Employment Hero 50
1.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Emi 48 · Employment Hero 62
1.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Emi 25 · Employment Hero 32
1.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -15.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.4 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 -15.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Emi minus Employment Hero.
| Category | Weight | Emi | Employment Hero | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 35 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 32 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 44 | 56 | -12 | -1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 44 | 62 | -18 | -2.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 50 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 62 | -14 | -1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 48 (F) | -15 | -15.4 |
§ 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 | Emi | 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% | 2 | 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% | 3 | 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 a separate 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% | 19 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Emi has 26 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 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 Emi sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 61 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 26 for Emi, across 3 distinct source domains, and 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Emi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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