§ The result
2 points separate hireEZ and Personio.
hireEZ (Sourcing) edges Personio (ATS-integrated) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 42 to 40. hireEZ leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while Personio leads 3, including Post-Market Monitoring. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Human Oversight Design (hireEZ 58, Personio 48) and Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (hireEZ 60, Personio 52), the second being 30% of the weighted advantage hireEZ holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
hireEZ
AI-powered outbound recruiting platform that sources, matches, screens, engages, and schedules candidates on top of a customer's existing ATS.
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
hireEZ is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Personio under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | hireEZ | Personio |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 2015 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 19% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
hireEZ 60 · Personio 52
1.2 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hireEZ 58 · Personio 48
1.2 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
hireEZ 38 · Personio 48
1.2 weighted points to Personio
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hireEZ 30 · Personio 25
0.9 weighted points to hireEZ
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
hireEZ 25 · Personio 30
0.8 weighted points to Personio
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hireEZ 58 · Personio 50
0.6 weighted points to hireEZ
20% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
hireEZ 38 · Personio 40
0.4 weighted points to Personio
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +1.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +1.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hireEZ minus Personio.
| Category | Weight | hireEZ | Personio | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 40 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 48 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 48 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 40 (F) | +2 | +1.6 |
§ 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 | hireEZ | Personio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 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 Personio 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: 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Personio, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Personio last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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