§ The result
Dayforce leads Canditech on all 7 criteria.
Dayforce finishes 18 points clear of Canditech under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 39 — across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. Dayforce leads every one of the 7 criteria, Canditech none of them, and the closest of the 7 is FRIA Support, Canditech 30 to Dayforce 40. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Canditech 37, Dayforce 74 — and at a 20% weight it carries 41% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Canditech
Canditech is a skills-assessment and job-simulation platform that screens candidates with work-sample tests, technical and soft-skill assessments, and one-way video interviews, using AI agents to auto-score open-text and video responses.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
§ The record
Canditech is filed under Assessment AI, Dayforce under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Canditech is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Canditech | Dayforce |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | IL | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 1992 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Canditech 37 · Dayforce 74
7.4 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Canditech 25 · Dayforce 42
3.1 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Canditech 53 · Dayforce 68
1.8 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Canditech 32 · Dayforce 47
1.8 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Canditech 52 · Dayforce 63
1.6 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Canditech 30 · Dayforce 40
1.5 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Canditech 58 · Dayforce 70
1.0 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -18 beside that -18.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Canditech minus Dayforce.
| Category | Weight | Canditech | Dayforce | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 37 | 74 | -37 | -7.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 42 | -17 | -3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 40 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 63 | -11 | -1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 68 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 47 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 57 (F) | -18 | -18.2 |
§ 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 | Canditech | Dayforce | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next