Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
HeyMilo vs SmartRecruiters
HeyMilo
HeyMilo is an AI recruiter for high-volume hiring whose voice and video AI agent conducts and scores async and live conversational screening interviews against recruiter-defined rubrics and syncs results to the customer's ATS.
Concerning
Screening
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.
Concerning
ATS-integrated
The result
1 point separates SmartRecruiters and HeyMilo.
SmartRecruiters holds a 1-point edge over HeyMilo under rubric v1.0, 62 to 61, across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. The criteria split evenly, 3 each to HeyMilo and SmartRecruiters, with 1 level, and the weighted points on the side SmartRecruiters holds, headed by Article 11 Technical Documentation, settle the total. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HeyMilo 58, SmartRecruiters 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 78% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- HeyMilo3
- SmartRecruiters3
- Level1
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation58 vs 70
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
HeyMilo is filed under Screening AI, SmartRecruiters under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of
Only HeyMilo is in scope of
| Record | HeyMilo | SmartRecruiters |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2010 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight54% of the movement so far
HeyMilo58SmartRecruiters702.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 2
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight74% of the movement so far
HeyMilo83SmartRecruiters780.9 weighted points to HeyMilo
- 3
FRIA Support
15% weight84% of the movement so far
HeyMilo42SmartRecruiters450.4 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 4
Human Oversight Design
12% weight89% of the movement so far
HeyMilo64SmartRecruiters620.2 weighted points to HeyMilo
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight95% of the movement so far
HeyMilo46SmartRecruiters480.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
- 6
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
HeyMilo66SmartRecruiters630.2 weighted points to HeyMilo
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.7.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HeyMilo minus SmartRecruiters, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | HeyMilo | SmartRecruiters | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 83 | 78 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 62 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 62 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 46 | 48 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 63 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 61D | 62D | -1 | -1.7 |
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 | HeyMilo | SmartRecruiters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HeyMilo has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 3 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 HeyMilo and SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for HeyMilo, across 2 distinct source domains, and 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HeyMilo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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