§ The result
Employment Hero and The Predictive Index tie at 48.
Employment Hero (Screening) and The Predictive Index (Assessment) tie at 48 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Employment Hero leads 4 of the 7 criteria and The Predictive Index 2, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 35, The Predictive Index 45) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 80% of the weighted advantage The Predictive Index holds across the 2 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
The Predictive Index
The Predictive Index provides validated behavioral and cognitive psychometric assessments used to screen, hire, and develop employees and design teams, alongside AI-assisted talent-management software.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, The Predictive Index under Assessment 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 | The Predictive Index |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 1955 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · The Predictive Index 45
1.8 weighted points to The Predictive Index
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · The Predictive Index 52
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · The Predictive Index 43
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · The Predictive Index 35
0.4 weighted points to The Predictive Index
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · The Predictive Index 60
0.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · The Predictive Index 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 +0.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus The Predictive Index.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | The Predictive Index | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 50 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 45 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 52 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 43 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 48 (F) | - | +0.1 |
§ 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 | The Predictive Index | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 2 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 18 | 6 | 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; The Predictive Index has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
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 The Predictive Index, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- The Predictive Index last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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