§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Ceipal by 21 points.
Workday Recruiting AI finishes 21 points clear of Ceipal inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 56 against 35. Workday Recruiting AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Ceipal leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. Article 11 Technical Documentation is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Ceipal 30, Workday Recruiting AI 70, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 38% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Ceipal
AI-powered applicant tracking and workforce-management platform for staffing firms that sources, matches, and ranks candidates on a 1-to-100 scale against job requirements.
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
Ceipal 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.
| Record | Ceipal | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Ceipal 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
8.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Ceipal 20 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
7.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Ceipal 46 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
2.3 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Ceipal 25 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Ceipal 46 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.3 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Ceipal 53 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Ceipal 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Ceipal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -20.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -21 beside that -20.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Ceipal minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Ceipal | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 70 | -40 | -8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 60 | -40 | -7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 46 | 55 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 65 | -19 | -2.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 53 | 65 | -12 | -1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 35 (F) | 56 (F) | -21 | -20.9 |
§ 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 | Ceipal | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Ceipal has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 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 Ceipal, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Ceipal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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