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  "license": {
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Employment Hero: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero.md",
  "title": "Employment Hero: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Employment Hero is on the AI hiring software map. We record 6 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated September 2026.",
  "period": "May 7, 2025 to September 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
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    "slug": "employment-hero",
    "name": "Employment Hero",
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    "site": "https://employmenthero.com/",
    "summary": "\"The all-in-one HR, Payroll, Benefits & Hiring platform with Talent built-in.\" Employment Hero sells HR, payroll, rostering, benefits and an ATS to small and mid-sized businesses, mostly in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Southeast Asia, plus HeroForce EOR. Its hiring AI is SmartMatch, which ranks applicants and shows live shortlists from a pool of 2.5M+ jobseekers, and the AI Recruitment Agent, which writes job ads, scores applicants and runs first-round AI video interviews. It also sells HR and Payroll agents.",
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    "status": "active",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "category_names": [
      "HR suites and HRIS"
    ]
  },
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  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
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  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "\"The all-in-one HR, Payroll, Benefits & Hiring platform with Talent built-in.\" Employment Hero sells HR, payroll, rostering, benefits and an ATS to small and mid-sized businesses, mostly in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Southeast Asia, plus HeroForce EOR. Its hiring AI is SmartMatch, which ranks applicants and shows live shortlists from a pool of 2.5M+ jobseekers, and the AI Recruitment Agent, which writes job ads, scores applicants and runs first-round AI video interviews. It also sells HR and Payroll agents.",
    "source": {
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      "url": "https://employmenthero.com/"
    },
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      "map": "hiring-software",
      "title": "The AI hiring software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Employment Hero",
      "site": "https://employmenthero.com/",
      "category": "HR suites and HRIS",
      "what": "\"The all-in-one HR, Payroll, Benefits & Hiring platform with Talent built-in.\" Employment Hero sells HR, payroll, rostering, benefits and an ATS to small and mid-sized businesses, mostly in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Southeast Asia, plus HeroForce EOR. Its hiring AI is SmartMatch, which ranks applicants and shows live shortlists from a pool of 2.5M+ jobseekers, and the AI Recruitment Agent, which writes job ads, scores applicants and runs first-round AI video interviews. It also sells HR and Payroll agents.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "employmenthero.com",
        "url": "https://employmenthero.com/"
      },
      "price": "Published (NZ page): standalone hiring Free plan with candidate scoring and 50 one-off AI video interviews; Pro tiers $199 (50 AI interviews) to $959 (300 AI interviews); Recruitment Agent included in the HR Engage plan ($13). Currency and billing period as printed on the NZ page.",
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      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agents",
          "AI interviews",
          "AI analytics",
          "Assistant",
          "Job posts and ads",
          "Screening and ranking",
          "Interview notes",
          "AI sourcing"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Vendor says it passed A$300 million ARR, growing above 30%, and supports more than 350,000 businesses (17 Feb 2026). Private.)",
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        {
          "name": "employmenthero.com",
          "url": "https://employmenthero.com/about-us/"
        },
        {
          "name": "employmenthero.com",
          "url": "https://employmenthero.com/products/recruitment-agent/"
        },
        {
          "name": "employmenthero.com",
          "url": "https://employmenthero.com/nz/hiring-software-nz/"
        },
        {
          "name": "employmenthero.com",
          "url": "https://employmenthero.com/blog/ai-recruitment-agent/"
        },
        {
          "name": "employmenthero.com",
          "url": "https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/"
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-09-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Employment Hero launches Recruitment Agent Hub",
      "summary": "The Recruitment Agent Hub \"is a chat-based home base that builds job ads, sets criteria and surfaces salary and talent insights.\"",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog (2026 product recap)",
        "url": "https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-07-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Free standalone Recruitment Agent opens to any employer",
      "summary": "A free standalone Recruitment Agent \"lets anyone sign up, create a job and send AI interview invitations with no sales call\"; in August free AI video interviews began to \"invite qualified candidates before a recruiter even opens their application.\"",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog (2026 product recap)",
        "url": "https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-3",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero/#event-3",
      "on": "2026-06-01",
      "date_precision": "month",
      "title": "Recruitment Agent adds AI Notetaker",
      "summary": "AI Notetaker \"transcribes and summarises Google Meet and Microsoft Teams interviews.\"",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog (2026 product recap)",
        "url": "https://employmenthero.com/blog/employment-hero-product-updates-2026/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-4",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero/#event-4",
      "on": "2026-02-17",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "SEEK Growth Fund starts sale of its Employment Hero stake as ARR passes A$300M",
      "summary": "SEEK Investments said the SEEK Growth Fund began a process to sell its holding. Employment Hero said it passed A$300 million ARR and is \"embedding agentic AI directly into complex, regulated employment workflows.\"",
      "kind": "Funding round",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor release",
        "url": "https://employmenthero.com/blog/at-a300m-arr-ai-powered-employment-hero-enters-next-phase-as-seek-growth-fund-launches-stake-sale"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-5",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero/#event-5",
      "on": "2025-11-04",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Employment Hero introduces AI Recruitment Agent for first-round interviews",
      "summary": "The Recruitment Agent \"automates first-round, structured video interviews\" and is \"an AI-driven feature fully integrated into the Employment Hero platform that manages the entire first-round interview process.\"",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Vendor blog",
        "url": "https://employmenthero.com/blog/ai-recruitment-agent/"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-6",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/employment-hero/#event-6",
      "on": "2025-05-07",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Employment Hero launches free AI hiring tool EH Hiring",
      "summary": "EH Hiring is \"a free (for now) AI-powered hiring tool that taps into Employment Hero's proprietary SmartMatch tech\", giving employers \"a curated shortlist of qualified candidates selected by AI\" from about 1.5 million jobseekers.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI hiring software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-employment-hero"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "eCommerceNews Australia",
        "url": "https://ecommercenews.com.au/story/ai-is-the-shortcut-from-vacant-role-to-hired"
      }
    }
  ]
}