§ The result
Phenom leads hireEZ by 10 points.
Phenom sits 10 points above hireEZ under rubric v1.0, 52 against 42, with both filed under Sourcing. Phenom leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while hireEZ leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 2 are level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — hireEZ 30, Phenom 75 — and at an 18% weight it carries 69% of the weighted advantage Phenom holds across the 3 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
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
§ The record
hireEZ and Phenom are both filed under Candidate sourcing AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | hireEZ | Phenom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
hireEZ 30 · Phenom 75
8.1 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
hireEZ 38 · Phenom 55
3.4 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
hireEZ 38 · Phenom 30
1.0 weighted points to hireEZ
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
hireEZ 58 · Phenom 60
0.2 weighted points to Phenom
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
hireEZ 58 · Phenom 55
0.2 weighted points to hireEZ
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -10.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -10.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hireEZ minus Phenom.
| Category | Weight | hireEZ | Phenom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 55 | -17 | -3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 75 | -45 | -8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 30 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 42 (F) | 52 (F) | -10 | -10.5 |
§ 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 | Phenom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
hireEZ has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 24 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for hireEZ, across 1 distinct source domain, and 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hireEZ last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next