§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Brainner by 10 points.
Workday Recruiting AI, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 10 points above Brainner, filed under Screening: 56 against 46 under rubric v1.0. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Workday Recruiting AI: Workday Recruiting AI is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and Brainner on Post-Market Monitoring. The advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds is spread out: Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Brainner 52, Workday Recruiting AI 70, 20% weight), yet it supplies only 35% of the weighted points Workday Recruiting AI gains across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
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
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Brainner is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Brainner | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 31% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
3.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
3.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.2 weighted points to Brainner
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brainner 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brainner 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.3 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -9.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -10 beside that -9.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 70 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 55 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 65 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 56 (F) | -10 | -9.1 |
§ 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 | Brainner | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; 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 Brainner sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next