§ The result
HiPeople leads Employment Hero on 6 of the 7 criteria.
HiPeople sits 13 points above Employment Hero under rubric v1.0 — 61 (D) against 48 (F) — with HiPeople filed under Assessment and Employment Hero under Screening. HiPeople leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Employment Hero is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 HiPeople leads is Data Governance Disclosure, Employment Hero 56 to HiPeople 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 35, HiPeople 84) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 65% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, HiPeople under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | HiPeople |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | DE |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · HiPeople 84
8.8 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · HiPeople 62
2.4 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · HiPeople 60
1.2 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · HiPeople 35
0.4 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · HiPeople 66
0.3 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · HiPeople 58
0.3 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -13.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -13.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus HiPeople.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | HiPeople | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 62 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 84 | -49 | -8.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 60 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 66 | -4 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 61 (D) | -13 | -13.5 |
§ 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 | Employment Hero | HiPeople | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 66 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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