§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Adaface by 17 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) opens a 17-point lead on Adaface (Assessment), 56 to 39. Adaface takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 6 for Workday Recruiting AI, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Adaface 22, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Adaface
Adaface runs chatbot-led 'conversational' skills tests for 500+ roles that score candidates automatically as pass, borderline pass or fail on benchmarked scorecards, backed by webcam, screen and IP proctoring and an AI résumé parser.
Vendor profile
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Adaface is filed under Assessment AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Adaface is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Adaface | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | SG | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Adaface 22 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
6.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Adaface 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
6.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Adaface 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Adaface 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Adaface 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Adaface 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Adaface 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Adaface
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -16.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -16.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Adaface minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Adaface | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 38 | 70 | -32 | -6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 60 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 65 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 56 (F) | -17 | -16.4 |
§ 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 | Adaface | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Adaface has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for Adaface, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Adaface last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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