§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Cangrade on all 7 criteria.
Workday Recruiting AI sits 11 points above Cangrade under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 45 — with Workday Recruiting AI filed under ATS-integrated and Cangrade under Assessment. Workday Recruiting AI leads every one of the 7 criteria, Cangrade none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Cangrade 54 to Workday Recruiting AI 55. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cangrade 35, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Cangrade
Cangrade is a predictive pre-hire assessment and screening platform that scores candidates against customer-specific success models built from roughly 50 psychometric traits, with add-on modules for resume screening, structured and video interviews, interview scheduling, and reference checking.
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
Cangrade is filed under Assessment AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Cangrade is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cangrade | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cangrade 35 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
4.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cangrade 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
3.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cangrade 56 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.1 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cangrade 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cangrade 32 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cangrade 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cangrade 54 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.1 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -11 beside that -10.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cangrade minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Cangrade | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 70 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 60 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 65 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 45 (F) | 56 (F) | -11 | -10.7 |
§ 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 | Cangrade | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 3 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 2 | 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% | 2 | 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% | 20 | 10 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Cangrade has 27 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 10 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 Cangrade sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 38 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 27 for Cangrade, across 3 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cangrade last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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