§ The result
PageUp leads Employment Hero on all 7 criteria.
PageUp finishes 16 points clear of Employment Hero under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 48 (F) — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Of the 7 criteria Employment Hero wins none, and the narrowest lead PageUp holds is on Customer Documentation, Employment Hero 62 to PageUp 63. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 35, PageUp 80) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 50% of the weighted advantage PageUp holds across the 7 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
PageUp
PageUp is an enterprise talent acquisition suite (ATS, recruitment marketing/CRM, onboarding, learning and performance). Its AI Skills Matching sorts each applicant's resume against skills taken from the job ad into five bands, from Excellent Match to Not a Match, and recruiters reach those results through Paige, its conversational assistant.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, PageUp under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
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 | PageUp |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AU | AU |
| Founded | 2014 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · PageUp 80
8.1 weighted points to PageUp
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · PageUp 74
4.8 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · PageUp 40
1.2 weighted points to PageUp
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · PageUp 63
1.1 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · PageUp 55
0.6 weighted points to PageUp
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · PageUp 64
0.2 weighted points to PageUp
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · PageUp 63
0.1 weighted points to PageUp
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -16 beside that -16.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus PageUp.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | PageUp | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 74 | -24 | -4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 80 | -45 | -8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 63 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 63 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 64 (D) | -16 | -16.1 |
§ 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 | PageUp | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 4 | 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; PageUp has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for PageUp sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 28 for PageUp, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- PageUp last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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