Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Ashby vs Workday Recruiting AI
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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Ashby and Workday Recruiting AI tie at 56.
Ashby and Workday Recruiting AI, both in the ATS-integrated cohort, tie at 56 under rubric v1.0 by different routes through the criteria. Ashby leads 4 of the 7 criteria and Workday Recruiting AI 3, yet the two totals land on the same number. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Ashby 63, Workday Recruiting AI 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 73% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Ashby4
- Workday Recruiting AI3
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation63 vs 70
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Ashby and Workday Recruiting AI are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of
Only Ashby is in scope of
| Record | Ashby | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 2005 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight30% of the movement so far
Ashby63Workday Recruiting AI701.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
- 2
FRIA Support
15% weight53% of the movement so far
Ashby42Workday Recruiting AI351.1 weighted points to Ashby
- 3
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight71% of the movement so far
Ashby42Workday Recruiting AI350.8 weighted points to Ashby
- 4
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight81% of the movement so far
Ashby58Workday Recruiting AI550.4 weighted points to Ashby
- 5
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight89% of the movement so far
Ashby62Workday Recruiting AI600.4 weighted points to Ashby
- 6
Human Oversight Design
12% weight97% of the movement so far
Ashby62Workday Recruiting AI650.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Ashby63Workday Recruiting AI650.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +0.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.6 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 +0.8.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ashby minus Workday Recruiting AI, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Ashby | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 63 | 70 | -7 | -1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 35 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 65 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56F | 56F | - | +0.8 |
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 | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Ashby has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 22 for Ashby, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ashby last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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