§ The result
UKG leads HeroHunt.ai by 14 points.
UKG sits 14 points above HeroHunt.ai under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 30 — with UKG filed under ATS-integrated and HeroHunt.ai under Sourcing. UKG leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while HeroHunt.ai leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (HeroHunt.ai 20, UKG 48) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 41% of the weighted advantage UKG 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
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
§ The record
HeroHunt.ai is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, UKG 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 | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | NL | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · UKG 48
5.6 weighted points to UKG
18% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · UKG 30
3.6 weighted points to UKG
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · UKG 56
1.6 weighted points to UKG
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · UKG 35
1.2 weighted points to UKG
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HeroHunt.ai 28 · UKG 38
1.2 weighted points to UKG
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · UKG 55
0.6 weighted points to UKG
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · UKG 52
0.4 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -13.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -14 beside that -13.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus UKG.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 48 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 30 | -20 | -3.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 35 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 56 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 52 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 44 (F) | -14 | -13.4 |
§ 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 | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 2 | — |
| 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 | 0 | 2 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 8 | 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; UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 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 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next