§ The result
Beamery leads Workday Recruiting AI by 5 points.
Beamery scores 61 (D) and Workday Recruiting AI 56 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Beamery and Workday Recruiting AI each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split Beamery holds (headed by Bias Audit Transparency) adds up to more weighted points. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Beamery 85, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 55% of the weighted advantage Beamery holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Beamery
Talent CRM and sourcing platform that maintains a long-lived candidate pipeline, with AI-driven matching and skills inference.
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
Beamery is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144.
| Record | Beamery | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2013 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Beamery 85 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
4.5 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Beamery 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
3.0 weighted points to Beamery
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Beamery 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Beamery 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Beamery 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.8 weighted points to Beamery
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Beamery 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Beamery minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Beamery | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 70 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 60 | +25 | +4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 56 (F) | +5 | +5.9 |
§ 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 | Beamery | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 10 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Beamery has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Beamery sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 22 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Beamery, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Beamery last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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