§ The result
Cornerstone OnDemand leads Paycor on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Cornerstone OnDemand opens a 16-point lead on Paycor, 56 to 40, with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. Paycor is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Cornerstone OnDemand takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Customer Documentation, Cornerstone OnDemand 60 to Paycor 55. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (Cornerstone OnDemand 58, Paycor 25) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Cornerstone OnDemand 72, Paycor 40), the second being 39% of the weighted advantage Cornerstone OnDemand holds across the 6 criteria 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
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
§ The record
Cornerstone OnDemand and Paycor 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, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Cornerstone OnDemand is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cornerstone OnDemand | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 72 · Paycor 40
6.4 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cornerstone OnDemand 58 · Paycor 25
5.9 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · Paycor 50
1.5 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cornerstone OnDemand 35 · Paycor 27
1.2 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cornerstone OnDemand 45 · Paycor 38
0.8 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · Paycor 55
0.4 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +16.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +16.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cornerstone OnDemand minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | Cornerstone OnDemand | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 40 | +32 | +6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 25 | +33 | +5.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 38 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 40 (F) | +16 | +16.3 |
§ 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 | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 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 | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 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 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 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 | 24 | 6 | Audit 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; Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cornerstone OnDemand and Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next