§ The result
Phenom leads Personio by 12 points.
Phenom sits 12 points above Personio under rubric v1.0 — 52 against 40 — with Phenom filed under Sourcing and Personio under ATS-integrated. Phenom leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Personio leads 2, including Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Personio 25, Phenom 75 — and at an 18% weight it carries 60% of the weighted advantage Phenom holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
§ The record
Personio is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Phenom under Candidate sourcing 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 | Personio | Phenom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2010 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Personio 25 · Phenom 75
9.0 weighted points to Phenom
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Personio 40 · Phenom 55
3.0 weighted points to Phenom
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Personio 48 · Phenom 30
2.2 weighted points to Personio
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Personio 48 · Phenom 60
1.4 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Personio 52 · Phenom 60
1.2 weighted points to Phenom
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Personio 30 · Phenom 25
0.8 weighted points to Personio
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Personio 50 · Phenom 55
0.4 weighted points to Phenom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -12.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Personio minus Phenom.
| Category | Weight | Personio | Phenom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 55 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 75 | -50 | -9.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 60 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 48 | 60 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 30 | +18 | +2.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 52 (F) | -12 | -12.1 |
§ 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 | Personio | Phenom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 13 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Personio has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 Personio sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Personio, across 5 distinct source domains, and 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Personio last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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