§ The result
Cornerstone OnDemand leads ADP on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Cornerstone OnDemand scores 56 and ADP 48 under rubric v1.0 — an 8-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Cornerstone OnDemand leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so ADP is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Cornerstone OnDemand leads is Customer Documentation, ADP 58 to Cornerstone OnDemand 60. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — ADP 53, Cornerstone OnDemand 72 — and at a 20% weight it carries 50% of the weighted advantage Cornerstone OnDemand holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
ADP
ADP is an enterprise human capital management and payroll provider whose recruiting suite uses AI to parse, rank, and match job applicants via its Candidate Relevancy tool, ADP Assist generative-AI assistant/job-description generator, and skills intelligence.
Vendor profile
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand is an enterprise talent-management and learning suite whose Cornerstone Galaxy platform uses AI-driven skills extraction and matching (including the acquired SkyHive Skills Models) to power recruiting, candidate screening, and workforce development.
§ The record
ADP and Cornerstone OnDemand are both filed under ATS-integrated 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 Cornerstone OnDemand is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | ADP | Cornerstone OnDemand |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1949 | 1999 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
ADP 53 · Cornerstone OnDemand 72
3.8 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
18% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
ADP 46 · Cornerstone OnDemand 58
2.2 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
ADP 28 · Cornerstone OnDemand 35
1.1 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
ADP 57 · Cornerstone OnDemand 60
0.4 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
ADP 58 · Cornerstone OnDemand 60
0.2 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -7.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -8 beside that -7.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is ADP minus Cornerstone OnDemand.
| Category | Weight | ADP | Cornerstone OnDemand | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 53 | 72 | -19 | -3.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 46 | 58 | -12 | -2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 35 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 60 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 45 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 48 (F) | 56 (F) | -8 | -7.6 |
§ 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 | ADP | Cornerstone OnDemand | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 18 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
ADP has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 18 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Cornerstone OnDemand has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cornerstone OnDemand sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for ADP, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- ADP last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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