§ The result
Spark Hire leads Employment Hero by 5 points.
Spark Hire scores 53 and Employment Hero 48 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Video interview and Screening cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Spark Hire, with 1 level: Spark Hire is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Employment Hero on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Employment Hero 35, Spark Hire 62) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 67% of the weighted advantage Spark Hire holds across the 4 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
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Spark Hire under Video interview 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 | Spark Hire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 54% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Spark Hire 62
4.9 weighted points to Spark Hire
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Spark Hire 58
1.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Spark Hire 38
1.4 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Spark Hire 60
0.6 weighted points to Spark Hire
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Spark Hire 30
0.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Spark Hire 64
0.2 weighted points to Spark Hire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -5.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -5.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Employment Hero minus Spark Hire.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Spark Hire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 58 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 62 | -27 | -4.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 64 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 53 (F) | -5 | -5.5 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 3 | 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 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; Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next