§ The result
4 points separate Employment Hero and Prevue HR.
Employment Hero (Screening) edges Prevue HR (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 48 to 44. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Employment Hero: Employment Hero is ahead on Data Governance Disclosure and Prevue HR on Bias Audit Transparency. Prevue HR takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Employment Hero 35, Prevue HR 44), 100% of the weighted advantage it builds, while the widest raw gap is on Post-Market Monitoring, Employment Hero 50 to Prevue HR 40.
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
Prevue HR
Prevue HR's psychometric platform tests candidates' aptitude, personality and motivations and compares the results with a custom role benchmark to produce a percentage Job Suitability score and Job-Fit report, alongside an optional applicant tracking system (APS Pro).
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Prevue HR under Assessment AI. They also share 1 secondary category: ATS-integrated.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | Prevue HR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | CA |
| Founded | 2014 | 1994 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Prevue HR 44
1.6 weighted points to Prevue HR
15% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Prevue HR 48
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Prevue HR 40
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Prevue HR 45
1.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Prevue HR 54
1.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Prevue HR 27
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Prevue HR 58
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +3.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +4 beside that +3.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Prevue HR.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Prevue HR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 45 | +5 | +1.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 44 | -9 | -1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 27 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 48 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 44 (F) | +4 | +3.8 |
§ 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 | Prevue HR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 6 | 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; Prevue HR has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Prevue HR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Prevue HR, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Prevue HR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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