§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI takes the total, Checkr takes more of the criteria.
Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) edges Checkr (Screening) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 56 to 54. Checkr leads more of the criteria than Workday Recruiting AI — 4 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Workday Recruiting AI leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Workday Recruiting AI. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Checkr 35, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 91% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 2 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Checkr
Checkr is an FCRA-regulated background screening platform that uses machine learning to parse, classify and standardize criminal, employment, education and motor-vehicle records, and to route them through customer-configured adjudication rulesets that flag candidates as eligible, review or escalated for employment decisions.
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
Checkr is filed under Screening AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Checkr is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Checkr | 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 · 55% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Checkr 35 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
4.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Checkr 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.8 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Checkr 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.1 weighted points to Checkr
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Checkr 32 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Checkr 68 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.2 weighted points to Checkr
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Checkr 66 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.1 weighted points to Checkr
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.2 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 -1.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Checkr minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Checkr | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 70 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 35 | 60 | -25 | -4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 35 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 65 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 65 | +3 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 54 (F) | 56 (F) | -2 | -1.7 |
§ 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 | Checkr | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 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% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Checkr has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Checkr, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Checkr last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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