§ The result
Employment Hero leads Humanly by 6 points.
Employment Hero finishes 6 points ahead of Humanly under rubric v1.0, 48 to 42, both scored as Screening entries. The 7 criteria split 5 to 2 in favour of Employment Hero: Employment Hero is ahead on Data Governance Disclosure and Humanly on Bias Audit Transparency. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 50, Humanly 30) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (Employment Hero 56, Humanly 40), 34% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero builds across the 5 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
Humanly
Conversational AI for high-volume recruiting that engages, screens, and schedules candidates across chat, SMS, email, voice, and video, with structured AI interviews and automated scoring.
§ The record
Employment Hero and Humanly are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | Humanly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Humanly 40
2.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Humanly 30
2.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 69% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Humanly 45
1.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Humanly 40
0.9 weighted points to Humanly
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Humanly 52
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Humanly 58
0.5 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Humanly 35
0.4 weighted points to Humanly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.4 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 +5.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Humanly.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Humanly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 40 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 42 (F) | +6 | +5.7 |
§ 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 | Humanly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Employment Hero has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Humanly has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Humanly, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Humanly last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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