§ The result
Employment Hero leads Loxo on all 7 criteria.
Employment Hero sits 11 points above Loxo under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 37 — with Employment Hero filed under Screening and Loxo under Sourcing. Employment Hero leads every one of the 7 criteria, Loxo none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Employment Hero 32 to Loxo 30. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Employment Hero 50, Loxo 30, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 37% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero holds across the 7 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
Loxo
Loxo is an AI-native talent-intelligence platform that combines candidate sourcing, a recruiting CRM, and an applicant tracking system, using proprietary ranking models and a self-built talent graph of 800M+ people to source, rank, and match candidates for recruiting and staffing firms.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Loxo under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Employment Hero is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | Loxo |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Loxo 30
4.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Loxo 20
2.7 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Loxo 50
1.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Loxo 40
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Loxo 50
0.9 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Loxo 58
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Loxo 30
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +10.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +10.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Loxo.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Loxo | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 30 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 20 | +15 | +2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 37 (F) | +11 | +10.9 |
§ 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 | Loxo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 7 | Audit reportSources 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; Loxo has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Loxo, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Loxo last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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