§ The result
Employment Hero leads JazzHR on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Employment Hero holds a 4-point edge over JazzHR under rubric v1.0, 48 to 44, across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. JazzHR is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Employment Hero takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is FRIA Support, Employment Hero 32 to JazzHR 28. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Post-Market Monitoring (Employment Hero 50, JazzHR 42) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Employment Hero 50, JazzHR 45), the second being 24% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
JazzHR
JazzHR is a small-business applicant tracking system that manages job posting, applications and hiring workflows, and layers on AI "Talent Fit" scoring that ranks candidates against a job description plus automated knockout screening questions.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, JazzHR under ATS-integrated 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 | Employment Hero | JazzHR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2009 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · JazzHR 45
1.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · JazzHR 42
1.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · JazzHR 28
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · JazzHR 52
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · JazzHR 58
0.5 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · JazzHR 56
0.5 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +4.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +4.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus JazzHR.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | JazzHR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 28 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 52 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 44 (F) | +4 | +4.1 |
§ 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 | JazzHR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 17 | 7 | Sources 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; JazzHR has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 17 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for JazzHR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 59 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 24 for JazzHR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- JazzHR last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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