§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads HeroHunt.ai on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter and HeroHunt.ai, both Sourcing entries, are 27 points apart under rubric v1.0, 57 for LinkedIn Recruiter against 30 for HeroHunt.ai. HeroHunt.ai leads none of the 7 criteria, and LinkedIn Recruiter is ahead on 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HeroHunt.ai 20, LinkedIn Recruiter 67, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 36% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HeroHunt.ai
HeroHunt.ai's AI Recruiter (launched as Uwi) searches a claimed 1 billion+ professional profiles, scores and ranks them against a job description with language models, and sends AI-personalised outreach to the candidates a user approves.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
§ The record
HeroHunt.ai and LinkedIn Recruiter are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | HeroHunt.ai | LinkedIn Recruiter |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2002 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · LinkedIn Recruiter 67
9.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
7.2 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · LinkedIn Recruiter 50
2.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · LinkedIn Recruiter 62
2.5 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · LinkedIn Recruiter 38
1.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · LinkedIn Recruiter 68
1.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · LinkedIn Recruiter 66
1.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -26.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 26.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -27 beside that -26.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus LinkedIn Recruiter.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | LinkedIn Recruiter | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 67 | -47 | -9.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 50 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 38 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 66 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 50 | -22 | -2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 68 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 57 (F) | -27 | -26.4 |
§ 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 | HeroHunt.ai | LinkedIn Recruiter | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HeroHunt.ai has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HeroHunt.ai and LinkedIn Recruiter sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 71 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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