§ The result
Cornerstone OnDemand leads BambooHR by 13 points.
Cornerstone OnDemand sits 13 points above BambooHR under rubric v1.0, 56 against 43, with both filed under ATS-integrated. Cornerstone OnDemand leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while BambooHR leads 1, including Customer Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — BambooHR 42, Cornerstone OnDemand 72 — and at a 20% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage Cornerstone OnDemand holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
BambooHR
A cloud HR platform for small and mid-sized businesses combining an HRIS and applicant tracking with generative AI features such as AI-drafted job descriptions and a natural-language HR data assistant.
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
BambooHR 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 and Colorado AI Act. Only Cornerstone OnDemand is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | BambooHR | Cornerstone OnDemand |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2008 | 1999 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BambooHR 42 · Cornerstone OnDemand 72
6.0 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
18% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BambooHR 28 · Cornerstone OnDemand 58
5.4 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BambooHR 56 · Cornerstone OnDemand 60
0.6 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BambooHR 50 · Cornerstone OnDemand 55
0.6 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BambooHR 62 · Cornerstone OnDemand 60
0.2 weighted points to BambooHR
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BambooHR 34 · Cornerstone OnDemand 35
0.1 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
BambooHR 44 · Cornerstone OnDemand 45
0.1 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BambooHR minus Cornerstone OnDemand.
| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Cornerstone OnDemand | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 42 | 72 | -30 | -6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 58 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 34 | 35 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 60 | -4 | -0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 55 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 44 | 45 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 56 (F) | -13 | -12.7 |
§ 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 | BambooHR | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 15 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 15 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
BambooHR has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for BambooHR, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BambooHR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next