§ The result
1 point separates Employment Hero and Knockri.
Employment Hero holds a 1-point edge over Knockri under rubric v1.0, 48 to 47, across the Screening and Video interview cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Employment Hero, with 1 level: Employment Hero is ahead on Post-Market Monitoring and Knockri on Article 11 Technical Documentation. Post-Market Monitoring is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Employment Hero 50, Knockri 35 — and at a 12% weight it carries 65% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 4 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
Knockri
Knockri runs asynchronous structured behavioural interviews that candidates answer by audio, video or text; it transcribes the answers, uses NLP models to score the work-related behaviours they describe against a skills framework, and produces per-skill scores and ranked shortlists.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Knockri under Video interview 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 | Knockri |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Knockri 35
1.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Knockri 55
1.0 weighted points to Knockri
8% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Knockri 55
0.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Knockri 35
0.4 weighted points to Knockri
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Knockri 60
0.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Knockri 55
0.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +1.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +1 beside that +1.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Knockri.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Knockri | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 47 (F) | +1 | +1.3 |
§ 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 | Knockri | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 36 | 5 | 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; Knockri has 41 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 36 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Knockri sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 76 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 41 for Knockri, across 7 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Knockri last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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