§ The result
Cornerstone OnDemand leads Emmersion on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Cornerstone OnDemand sits 12 points above Emmersion under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 44 — with Cornerstone OnDemand filed under ATS-integrated and Emmersion under Assessment. Cornerstone OnDemand leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Emmersion is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Cornerstone OnDemand leads is Human Oversight Design, Cornerstone OnDemand 55 to Emmersion 53. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cornerstone OnDemand 58, Emmersion 28) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage Cornerstone OnDemand holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
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
Emmersion
Emmersion, Rosetta Stone's assessment division within IXL Learning, sells AI-scored adaptive TrueNorth speaking and writing tests and WebCAPE reading and grammar exams. They rate language proficiency on a 0-10 scale mapped to CEFR and ACTFL and are used for pre-employment screening, checking employees' language skills and placing students.
§ The record
Cornerstone OnDemand is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Emmersion under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cornerstone OnDemand | Emmersion |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2015 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cornerstone OnDemand 58 · Emmersion 28
5.4 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
20% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 72 · Emmersion 57
3.0 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · Emmersion 50
1.5 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cornerstone OnDemand 45 · Emmersion 38
0.8 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cornerstone OnDemand 35 · Emmersion 30
0.8 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cornerstone OnDemand 55 · Emmersion 53
0.2 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +11.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +12 beside that +11.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cornerstone OnDemand minus Emmersion.
| Category | Weight | Cornerstone OnDemand | Emmersion | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 57 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 28 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 53 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 44 (F) | +12 | +11.7 |
§ 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 | Cornerstone OnDemand | Emmersion | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 35 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Cornerstone OnDemand has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 15 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Emmersion has 40 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 35 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cornerstone OnDemand and Emmersion sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 60 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains, and 40 for Emmersion, across 5 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Emmersion last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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