§ The result
Employment Hero leads Pulsifi on all 7 criteria.
Employment Hero finishes 15 points clear of Pulsifi under rubric v1.0 — 48 against 33 — across the Screening and Assessment cohorts. Of the 7 criteria Pulsifi wins none, and the narrowest lead Employment Hero holds is on FRIA Support, Employment Hero 32 to Pulsifi 25. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 50, Pulsifi 28) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Employment Hero 50, Pulsifi 30), 27% of the weighted advantage Employment Hero builds 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
Pulsifi
Pulsifi gives candidates and employees 0-100 Role Fit and Organizational Fit scores that combine personality, work-interest, work-culture and cognitive assessments with AI resume and skills analysis, and uses the scores to rank people for hiring, internal mobility and succession.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Pulsifi under Assessment AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: ATS-integrated and Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Employment Hero | Pulsifi |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | SG |
| Founded | 2014 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Pulsifi 30
4.0 weighted points to Employment Hero
18% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Pulsifi 20
2.7 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Pulsifi 28
2.6 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Pulsifi 40
2.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Pulsifi 46
1.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Pulsifi 25
1.1 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Pulsifi 55
0.8 weighted points to Employment Hero
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +14.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Pulsifi.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Pulsifi | 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 | 25 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 40 | +16 | +2.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 28 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 46 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 33 (F) | +15 | +14.9 |
§ 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 | Pulsifi | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 3 | 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 | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 2 | 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 | 26 | 7 | Sources 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; Pulsifi has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for Pulsifi, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pulsifi last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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