Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Ashby vs Cornerstone OnDemand
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform combining applicant tracking, CRM/sourcing, scheduling, and analytics, with embedded AI features including resume-to-criteria evaluation, AI-assisted application review, sourcing outreach, and scheduling agents.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
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.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Ashby and Cornerstone OnDemand tie at 56.
Ashby and Cornerstone OnDemand tie at 56 under rubric v1.0 inside the ATS-integrated cohort, arriving there from different criteria. Ashby leads 4 of the 7 criteria and Cornerstone OnDemand 3, yet the two totals land on the same number. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Ashby 63, Cornerstone OnDemand 72) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 73% of the weighted advantage Cornerstone OnDemand holds across the 3 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Ashby4
- Cornerstone OnDemand3
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation63 vs 72
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Ashby and Cornerstone OnDemand are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
Only Cornerstone OnDemand is in scope of
| Record | Ashby | Cornerstone OnDemand |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 1999 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight34% of the movement so far
Ashby63Cornerstone OnDemand721.8 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
- 2
FRIA Support
15% weight54% of the movement so far
Ashby42Cornerstone OnDemand351.1 weighted points to Ashby
- 3
Human Oversight Design
12% weight69% of the movement so far
Ashby62Cornerstone OnDemand550.8 weighted points to Ashby
- 4
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight83% of the movement so far
Ashby62Cornerstone OnDemand580.7 weighted points to Ashby
- 5
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight90% of the movement so far
Ashby42Cornerstone OnDemand450.4 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight95% of the movement so far
Ashby58Cornerstone OnDemand600.3 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Ashby63Cornerstone OnDemand600.2 weighted points to Ashby
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +0.4.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus Cornerstone OnDemand, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | Cornerstone OnDemand | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 72 | -9 | -1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 60 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56F | 56F | - | +0.4 |
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 | Ashby | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 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% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 6 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 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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