§ The result
HiPeople leads Personio on all 7 criteria.
HiPeople finishes 21 points clear of Personio under rubric v1.0 — 61 (D) against 40 (F) — across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. HiPeople leads every one of the 7 criteria, Personio none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, HiPeople 35 to Personio 30. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiPeople 84, Personio 25 — and at an 18% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
Vendor profile
Personio
Personio is a European cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized companies that combines an HRIS with recruiting/ATS, time tracking, payroll and an AI assistant, and is adding agentic AI candidate sourcing and application screening through its 2026 acquisition of aurio.
§ The record
HiPeople is filed under Assessment AI, Personio under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only HiPeople is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiPeople | Personio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | DE | DE |
| Founded | 2019 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · Personio 25
10.6 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · Personio 40
4.4 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · Personio 48
1.7 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · Personio 48
1.4 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · Personio 50
1.3 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · Personio 52
0.9 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiPeople 35 · Personio 30
0.8 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +21.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus Personio.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | Personio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 40 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 25 | +59 | +10.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 48 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 48 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +1.3 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 40 (F) | +21 | +21.1 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | Personio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 13 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Personio has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiPeople and Personio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 20 for Personio, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Personio last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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