Humanly
Conversational AI for high-volume recruiting that engages, screens, and schedules candidates across chat, SMS, email, voice, and video, with structured AI interviews and automated scoring.
HireAIScore rates Humanly 42 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric v1.0, last reviewed June 7, 2026. Humanly ranks 67 of 92 vendors rated in Screening AI, against a category average of 47. That score is drawn from 18 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for Humanly — 12 with a cited source, 6 recording that nothing was located.
§ 01 - Company facts
- Legal name
- HumanlyHR Inc.
- Founded
- 2018
- Headquarters
- United States · US
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Market side
- Employer-side (AEDT)
- Categories
- ScreeningSchedulingVideo interview
- Website
- humanly.io
These are company details, not findings. They are editable by a verified representative and carry no weight in the score, which is built only from the cited evidence below.
§ 02 - Score breakdown
§ Score breakdown
Category scoring
Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.
- 01
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Weight 20%45
+9.0 · category avg 50
- 02
Bias Audit Transparency
Weight 18%40
+7.2 · category avg 46
- 03
FRIA Support
Weight 15%35
+5.3 · category avg 32
- 04
Data Governance Disclosure
Weight 15%40
+6.0 · category avg 54
- 05
Human Oversight Design
Weight 12%58
+7.0 · category avg 56
- 06
Post-Market Monitoring
Weight 12%30
+3.6 · category avg 40
- 07
Customer Documentation
Weight 8%52
+4.2 · category avg 58
Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 92 Screening AI vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.
§ 03 - Strongest · weakest
Strongest category
Human Oversight Design
Raw score 58 · contributes 7.0 to total.
58 against a 56 category average
Weakest category
Post-Market Monitoring
Raw score 30 · contributes 3.6 to total.
30 against a 40 category average
§ 04 - Cited evidence
Download diligence record→§ Evidence
Cited per category
Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence.
Evidence ledger
- Items
- 18
- Documentation
- 9
- Public statement
- 3
- Absence
- 6
- With a source URL
- 12 of 18
- Source hostnames
- 3
- Fewest items
- 2
- FRIA Support
These figures measure how thoroughly Humanly was reviewed, not how Humanly performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Article 11 Technical Documentation
3 items45
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
'Ethical AI' manifesto page states Humanly builds products using Microsoft's Responsible AI Framework and lists AI Now Institute, Data & Society, FairNow, and EAIDB as ethics partners/recognitions.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
An 'Ethical AI in Recruitment' whitepaper is summarized in a blog but the full document is gated behind a lead-capture form.
https://www.humanly.io/blog/building-trust-with-ethical-ai-in-recruitment-humanlys-approach
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedNo model/system card, ISO 42001, instructions-for-use, or standalone explainability statement located.
Bias Audit Transparency
3 items40
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Sept 2024 BusinessWire release names Humanly among HR-tech vendors using FairNow's platform for bias audits and LL 144 / Colorado SB-205 / EU AI Act compliance.
https://www.01net.it/fairnow-chosen-by-hr-technology-leaders-for-ai-governance-and-regulatory-needs/
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
AI Interviewer page lists 'Bias Mitigation Controls' and states the tool was co-designed with Dr. Katherine Hilton and Dr. Grin Lord to reduce bias.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedHumanly does not appear in the ACLU NYC LL 144 bias-audit tracker, No bias-audit report, auditor name/date, or impact-ratio data is published or downloadable on humanly.io.
FRIA Support
2 items35
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Release states Humanly uses FairNow's platform to comply with the EU AI Act, implying access to EU-AI-Act tooling but no Humanly-published FRIA artifact.
https://www.01net.it/fairnow-chosen-by-hr-technology-leaders-for-ai-governance-and-regulatory-needs/
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedNo FRIA template, Article 27 deployer guidance, or EU AI Act page located on humanly.io.
Data Governance Disclosure
3 items40
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Privacy policy details GDPR/CCPA-CPRA/POPIA rights, retention, a Microsoft security partnership, and states Humanly does not collect CPRA-defined sensitive personal information.
- Public statementCaptured Jun 7, 2026
GeekWire (Oct 2025) reports Humanly uses millions of chat/video transcripts to train models that score candidates - a training use its privacy policy does not disclose.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedThe /data-security page now returns 'Page not found'; no SOC 2, ISO 27001, sub-processor list, or trust page is currently published.
Human Oversight Design
2 items58
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
AI Interviewer page details governance pillars (Human Oversight, Transparency by Design, Auditability & Consistency) and shows in-product structured scorecards.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
POPIA section grants the right to human review of any decision made solely by automated processing.
Post-Market Monitoring
2 items30
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Lists 'Continuous Monitoring & Improvement' as a governance pillar but provides no public dashboard or changelog.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedNo public status page, incident channel, model-update changelog, security.txt, or vulnerability-disclosure policy located.
Customer Documentation
3 items52
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Comprehensive AI Interviewer product page with FAQs (incl. bias and fraud) and a governance section, plus a parallel AI Recruiter page.
- DocumentationCaptured Jun 7, 2026
Detailed (Dec 2024) privacy policy covering GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and POPIA.
- AbsenceCaptured Jun 7, 2026
No public material located as of 2026-06-07.
Where we lookedNo public DPA, NYC LL 144 candidate-notice template, or per-jurisdiction deployer guidance located.
§ 05 - Editorial notes
Company overview
Humanly (legal entity HumanlyHR Inc.) is a Seattle-based conversational-AI recruiting vendor founded in 2018 and a 2019 Y Combinator graduate. Its platform automates candidate engagement, screening, interview scheduling, reference checks, and structured AI interviews across chat, SMS, email, voice, and video for high-volume hiring teams. In October 2025 it acquired Sprockets, Qualifi, and HourWork to extend into sourcing, voice screening, and post-hire retention, and reports roughly 250,000 candidate interviews per month.
Regulatory exposure
Humanly sits in the high-risk zone of employment AI: it screens candidates against knockout criteria, applies "consistent scoring models," and surfaces scored candidate snapshots used to advance or filter applicants - functionality that maps to an AEDT under NYC LL 144, a high-risk system under EU AI Act Annex III, and a "consequential decision" tool under Colorado SB-205 and Illinois law. Its compliance commitment is mediated through a third-party governance vendor (FairNow, named publicly in a September 2024 release), but Humanly itself publishes no bias-audit report, no LL 144 audit summary, and no per-jurisdiction deployer guidance. A notable disclosed practice: GeekWire reports it trains candidate-scoring models on millions of chat and video transcripts - a use its own privacy policy does not address.
Path to a higher score
The highest-credibility wins are: publishing an independent NYC LL 144 bias-audit summary with auditor name, date, and impact-ratio tables on a stable, ungated URL; un-gating the "Ethical AI Framework" whitepaper and publishing an instructions-for-use / model-card style document; standing up a real trust/security page with any SOC 2 or ISO certifications (the previously referenced /data-security page now 404s); and adding explicit deployer-facing guidance for LL 144 notices, EU AI Act Article 27 FRIA support, and Colorado SB-205.
§ Regulatory frame
What applies to screening ai.
Treated as high-risk under Annex III §4 when the screening output is decisive. EU AI Act Article 13 transparency obligations apply; deployers must give candidates a way to contest.
§ Compare
Build any comparison→Humanly against its nearest-scoring peers.
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§ Others rated in Screening AI
All screening vendors→Ranked 67 of 92 by weighted total under rubric v1.0. The ordering is arithmetic on the rubric and carries no view on which tool suits a given hiring process.
- 64Talview42F
- 65Draup42F
- 66Talogy42F
- 67HumanlyThis profile42F
- 68Recruitee42F
- 69hireEZ42F
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