§ The result
HiPeople leads Phenom by 9 points.
HiPeople scores 61 (D) and Phenom 52 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 9-point gap across the Assessment and Sourcing cohorts. HiPeople leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Post-Market Monitoring, while Phenom leads 1, including Data Governance Disclosure. Post-Market Monitoring is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (HiPeople 60, Phenom 30, 12% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds across the 6 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
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
§ The record
HiPeople is filed under Assessment AI, Phenom under Candidate sourcing 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 | Phenom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · Phenom 30
3.6 weighted points to HiPeople
18% weight · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · Phenom 75
1.6 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 70% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiPeople 35 · Phenom 25
1.5 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · Phenom 55
1.4 weighted points to HiPeople
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · Phenom 55
0.9 weighted points to HiPeople
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · Phenom 60
0.3 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · Phenom 60
0.2 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +9 beside that +8.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus Phenom.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | Phenom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 75 | +9 | +1.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 30 | +30 | +3.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 52 (F) | +9 | +8.9 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | Phenom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next