§ The result
RecruitBot leads HeroHunt.ai by 7 points.
Inside the Sourcing cohort, rubric v1.0 puts RecruitBot on 37 and HeroHunt.ai on 30, 7 points apart. The 7 criteria split 5 to 1 in favour of RecruitBot, with 1 level: RecruitBot is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and HeroHunt.ai on Human Oversight Design. Even Article 11 Technical Documentation, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HeroHunt.ai 20, RecruitBot 33, 20% weight), is only 36% of the weighted advantage RecruitBot builds across the 5 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
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
§ The record
HeroHunt.ai and RecruitBot are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only HeroHunt.ai is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | HeroHunt.ai | RecruitBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 33% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · RecruitBot 33
2.6 weighted points to RecruitBot
18% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · RecruitBot 22
2.2 weighted points to RecruitBot
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · RecruitBot 40
1.4 weighted points to RecruitBot
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · RecruitBot 50
0.6 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · RecruitBot 55
0.6 weighted points to RecruitBot
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · RecruitBot 48
0.4 weighted points to RecruitBot
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -6.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -7 beside that -6.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus RecruitBot.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | RecruitBot | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 33 | -13 | -2.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 22 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 27 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 48 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 37 (F) | -7 | -6.6 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 25 | 6 | Sources 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; RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HeroHunt.ai and RecruitBot sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 63 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 31 for RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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