§ The result
Zappyhire takes the total, HeroHunt.ai takes more of the criteria.
Zappyhire holds a 4-point edge over HeroHunt.ai under rubric v1.0, 34 to 30, across the Screening and Sourcing cohorts. HeroHunt.ai leads more of the criteria, 4 against 2 for Zappyhire, yet Zappyhire takes Bias Audit Transparency, which carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum with it. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HeroHunt.ai 10, Zappyhire 28 — and at an 18% weight it carries 62% of the weighted advantage Zappyhire holds across the 2 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
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
HeroHunt.ai is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Zappyhire is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HeroHunt.ai | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | NL | IN |
| Founded | 2021 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HeroHunt.ai 10 · Zappyhire 28
3.2 weighted points to Zappyhire
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 20 · Zappyhire 30
2.0 weighted points to Zappyhire
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HeroHunt.ai 55 · Zappyhire 50
0.6 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HeroHunt.ai 45 · Zappyhire 42
0.4 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HeroHunt.ai 27 · Zappyhire 25
0.3 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HeroHunt.ai 48 · Zappyhire 45
0.2 weighted points to HeroHunt.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeroHunt.ai minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | HeroHunt.ai | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 20 | 30 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 10 | 28 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 25 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 42 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 28 | 28 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 48 | 45 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 34 (F) | -4 | -3.7 |
§ 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 | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 6 | 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; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HeroHunt.ai and Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for HeroHunt.ai, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeroHunt.ai last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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