§ The result
Phenom leads HeroHunt.ai by 22 points.
Phenom finishes 22 points clear of HeroHunt.ai inside the Sourcing cohort under rubric v1.0: 52 against 30. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Phenom: Phenom is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and HeroHunt.ai on FRIA Support. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (HeroHunt.ai 10, Phenom 75) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 52% of the weighted advantage Phenom holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
§ The record
HeroHunt.ai and Phenom 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 | Phenom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · Phenom 75
11.7 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · Phenom 55
7.0 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · Phenom 60
2.3 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · Phenom 60
0.6 weighted points to Phenom
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · Phenom 55
0.6 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · Phenom 25
0.3 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · Phenom 30
0.2 weighted points to Phenom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -22.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -22 beside that -22.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus Phenom.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | Phenom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 55 | -35 | -7.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 75 | -65 | -11.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 25 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 60 | -15 | -2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 52 (F) | -22 | -22.0 |
§ 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 | Phenom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HeroHunt.ai has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HeroHunt.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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