§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads HeroHunt.ai on all 7 criteria.
Rubric v1.0 puts 32 points between SmartRecruiters (ATS-integrated) and HeroHunt.ai (Sourcing): 62 (D) for SmartRecruiters, 30 (F) for HeroHunt.ai. SmartRecruiters leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Bias Audit Transparency among them; HeroHunt.ai leads none. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (HeroHunt.ai 10, SmartRecruiters 78, 18% weight), is only 38% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters builds across the 7 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
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
§ The record
HeroHunt.ai is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated 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 | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · SmartRecruiters 78
12.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · SmartRecruiters 70
10.0 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · SmartRecruiters 45
2.7 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · SmartRecruiters 62
2.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · SmartRecruiters 48
2.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · SmartRecruiters 63
1.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · SmartRecruiters 62
0.8 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -31.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 31.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -32 beside that -31.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus SmartRecruiters.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 70 | -50 | -10.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 78 | -68 | -12.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 45 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 62 | -17 | -2.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 48 | -20 | -2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 63 | -15 | -1.2 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 62 (D) | -32 | -31.9 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 1 | 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% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 11 | 2 | 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; SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HeroHunt.ai and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next