§ The result
4 points separate Pymetrics (Harver Games) and Phenom.
Pymetrics (Harver Games) (Assessment) edges Phenom (Sourcing) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 56 to 52. Pymetrics (Harver Games) leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Phenom leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 3 are level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Phenom 55, Pymetrics (Harver Games) 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 67% of the weighted advantage Pymetrics (Harver Games) holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Phenom
Talent experience platform combining a career site CMS, candidate CRM, internal mobility, and conversational AI for screening and scheduling.
Vendor profile
Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Behavioral assessment using browser-based "games" that infer cognitive and emotional traits. Acquired by Harver in 2022 and folded into the Harver Games product line.
§ The record
Phenom is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Pymetrics (Harver Games) under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Pymetrics (Harver Games) is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Phenom | Pymetrics (Harver Games) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Phenom 55 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 70
3.0 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
12% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Phenom 60 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 50
1.2 weighted points to Phenom
18% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Phenom 75 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 80
0.9 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Phenom 30 · Pymetrics (Harver Games) 35
0.6 weighted points to Pymetrics (Harver Games)
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -3.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Phenom minus Pymetrics (Harver Games).
| Category | Weight | Phenom | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 70 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 80 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 25 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 56 (F) | -4 | -3.3 |
§ 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 | Phenom | Pymetrics (Harver Games) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 8 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Phenom has 10 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 8 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Pymetrics (Harver Games) has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Pymetrics (Harver Games) sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 21 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 10 for Phenom, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Pymetrics (Harver Games), across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Phenom last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Pymetrics (Harver Games) last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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