§ The result
Employment Hero and Thomas International tie at 48.
Employment Hero, filed under Screening, and Thomas International, filed under Assessment, tie at 48 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Employment Hero leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Thomas International 4, yet the two totals land on the same number. Thomas International takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Employment Hero 35, Thomas International 43), which is 57% of the weighted advantage Thomas International holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Human Oversight Design, Employment Hero 62 to Thomas International 51.
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
Thomas International
Thomas International provides psychometric and aptitude assessments (behaviour/DISC, cognitive ability, personality and emotional intelligence) with an AI coaching layer, used for hiring, candidate selection and employee development.
§ The record
Employment Hero is filed under Screening AI, Thomas International 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 | Thomas International |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | AU | GB |
| Founded | 2014 | 1981 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Employment Hero 35 · Thomas International 43
1.4 weighted points to Thomas International
12% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Employment Hero 62 · Thomas International 51
1.3 weighted points to Employment Hero
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Employment Hero 50 · Thomas International 40
1.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Employment Hero 50 · Thomas International 54
0.8 weighted points to Thomas International
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Employment Hero 62 · Thomas International 60
0.2 weighted points to Employment Hero
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Employment Hero 32 · Thomas International 33
0.1 weighted points to Thomas International
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Employment Hero 56 · Thomas International 57
0.1 weighted points to Thomas International
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.2 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 Thomas International.
| Category | Weight | Employment Hero | Thomas International | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 50 | 54 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 43 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 33 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 57 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 51 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.2 |
| 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 | Thomas International | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 6 | 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; Thomas International has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for Employment Hero, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Thomas International, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Employment Hero last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Thomas International last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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