§ The result
Employment Hero leads Pillar by 8 points.
Employment Hero finishes 8 points ahead of Pillar under rubric v1.0, 48 to 40, both scored as Screening entries. Employment Hero leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Pillar leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Employment Hero 50, Pillar 33, 12% weight), but it accounts for only 25% 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
Pillar
Pillar (now "AI Interview Companion by Employ") is an interview intelligence platform that records and transcribes job interviews, generates AI interview guides and highlight clips, and surfaces candidate insights and interviewer-coaching recommendations.
§ The record
Employment Hero and Pillar are both filed under Screening 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 | Pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Pillar 33
2.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Pillar 48
1.7 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Pillar 45
1.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Pillar 42
1.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Pillar 50
1.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Pillar 38
0.5 weighted points to Pillar
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Pillar 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 +7.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Pillar.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Pillar | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 42 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 45 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 33 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 40 (F) | +8 | +7.7 |
§ 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 | Pillar | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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; Pillar 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 Pillar, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pillar last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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