§ The result
2 points separate Workday Recruiting AI and Bullhorn.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, Workday Recruiting AI edges Bullhorn by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 56 to 54. Workday Recruiting AI leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Bullhorn leads 2, including Data Governance Disclosure, and 1 is level. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bullhorn 62, Workday Recruiting AI 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 54% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Bullhorn
Bullhorn is a cloud-based applicant tracking system and CRM for staffing and recruiting agencies, with AI features (Bullhorn Copilot/Amplify, automation, and Textkernel-powered search and match) that source, screen, and rank candidates against jobs.
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
Bullhorn and Workday Recruiting AI are both filed 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 Bullhorn is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Bullhorn | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bullhorn 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
1.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bullhorn 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.8 weighted points to Bullhorn
12% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bullhorn 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bullhorn 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Bullhorn
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bullhorn 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bullhorn 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
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 -1.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -1.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bullhorn minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Bullhorn | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 70 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 56 (F) | -2 | -1.8 |
§ 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 | Bullhorn | 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% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 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% | 15 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Bullhorn has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 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 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Bullhorn, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bullhorn last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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