§ The result
1 point separates Dayforce and Cornerstone OnDemand.
Within the ATS-integrated cohort, Dayforce edges Cornerstone OnDemand by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 57 to 56. Dayforce leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Human Oversight Design, while Cornerstone OnDemand leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is at once the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing, and it belongs to Cornerstone OnDemand — Cornerstone OnDemand 58, Dayforce 42, on an 18% weight — which is 100% of the weighted advantage Cornerstone OnDemand holds across the 1 criterion on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone OnDemand is an enterprise talent-management and learning suite whose Cornerstone Galaxy platform uses AI-driven skills extraction and matching (including the acquired SkyHive Skills Models) to power recruiting, candidate screening, and workforce development.
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
Cornerstone OnDemand and Dayforce are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Cornerstone OnDemand is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cornerstone OnDemand | Dayforce |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 1992 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cornerstone OnDemand 58 · Dayforce 42
2.9 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cornerstone OnDemand 55 · Dayforce 68
1.6 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · Dayforce 70
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cornerstone OnDemand 35 · Dayforce 40
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · Dayforce 63
0.4 weighted points to Dayforce
20% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 72 · Dayforce 74
0.4 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cornerstone OnDemand 45 · Dayforce 47
0.2 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -1 beside that -1.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cornerstone OnDemand minus Dayforce.
| Category | Weight | Cornerstone OnDemand | Dayforce | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 74 | -2 | -0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +2.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 40 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 63 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 68 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 47 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 57 (F) | -1 | -1.3 |
§ 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 | Cornerstone OnDemand | Dayforce | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Cornerstone OnDemand has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cornerstone OnDemand sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next