The result

Cornerstone OnDemand takes the total, Gem takes more of the criteria.

Cornerstone OnDemand (ATS-integrated) edges Gem (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 56 to 55. Gem leads more of the criteria than Cornerstone OnDemand — 4 to 2 — but Article 11 Technical Documentation, which Cornerstone OnDemand leads, carries 20% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Cornerstone OnDemand. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Cornerstone OnDemand 72, Gem 58) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 86% of the weighted advantage Cornerstone OnDemand holds across the 2 criteria it leads.

Criteria won

7 criteria

  • Cornerstone OnDemand2
  • Gem4
  • Level1
Widest raw gap
Article 11 Technical Documentation72 vs 58
Heaviest weighted swing
Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight

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The record

Categories, scope and company facts.

Cornerstone OnDemand is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Gem under Candidate sourcing AI. They record no secondary category in common.

RecordCornerstone OnDemandGem
Price tierEnterpriseHigh
HeadquartersUSUS
Founded19992017

What decides it

The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.

  1. Article 11 Technical Documentation

    20% weight48% of the movement so far

    Cornerstone OnDemand72
    Gem58

    2.8 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand

  2. Bias Audit Transparency

    18% weight73% of the movement so far

    Cornerstone OnDemand58
    Gem66

    1.4 weighted points to Gem

  3. Human Oversight Design

    12% weight85% of the movement so far

    Cornerstone OnDemand55
    Gem61

    0.7 weighted points to Gem

  4. Data Governance Disclosure

    15% weight93% of the movement so far

    Cornerstone OnDemand60
    Gem57

    0.4 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand

  5. Post-Market Monitoring

    12% weight97% of the movement so far

    Cornerstone OnDemand45
    Gem47

    0.2 weighted points to Gem

  6. Customer Documentation

    8% weight100% of the movement so far

    Cornerstone OnDemand60
    Gem62

    0.2 weighted points to Gem

Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +0.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.8 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 +0.7.

Category-by-category

Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.

Δ is Cornerstone OnDemand minus Gem, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.

CategoryWeightCornerstone OnDemandGemΔ rawΔ weighted
Article 11 Technical Documentation20%7258+14+2.8
Bias Audit Transparency18%5866-8-1.4
FRIA Support15%3535--
Data Governance Disclosure15%6057+3+0.4
Human Oversight Design12%5561-6-0.7
Post-Market Monitoring12%4547-2-0.2
Customer Documentation8%6062-2-0.2
Total100%56F55F+1+0.7

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.

CriterionWeightCornerstone OnDemandGem
CitedAbsencesAudit / hostingCitedAbsencesAudit / hosting
Article 11 Technical Documentation20%30Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain21Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain
Bias Audit Transparency18%21Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain30Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain
FRIA Support15%11Sources on the vendor's own domain21Sources on the vendor's own domain
Data Governance Disclosure15%21Sources on the vendor's own domain30Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain
Human Oversight Design12%21Sources on the vendor's own domain30Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain
Post-Market Monitoring12%21Sources on the vendor's own domain30Sources on the vendor's own domain
Customer Documentation8%30Sources on the vendor's own domain30Sources on the vendor's own domain
All criteria100%155Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain192Audit reportSources 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; Gem has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cornerstone OnDemand and Gem sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.

Provenance

The scores above are documented by 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains, and 21 for Gem, across 2 distinct source domains.

Rubric
v1.0
Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
Gem last reviewed
June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team

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