§ The result
Cornerstone OnDemand and Sapia.ai tie at 56.
Cornerstone OnDemand (ATS-integrated) and Sapia.ai (Assessment) tie at 56 under rubric v1.0, arriving there from different criteria. Cornerstone OnDemand leads 2 of the 7 criteria and Sapia.ai 4, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Cornerstone OnDemand takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Cornerstone OnDemand 58, Sapia.ai 52), which is 73% of the weighted advantage Cornerstone OnDemand holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Human Oversight Design, Cornerstone OnDemand 55 to Sapia.ai 62.
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
Sapia.ai
Structured, text-based chat interview that scores candidates on personality (HEXACO) and competency traits - with no video, audio, or demographic data used.
§ The record
Cornerstone OnDemand is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sapia.ai 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 | Sapia.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | AU |
| Founded | 1999 | 2013 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cornerstone OnDemand 58 · Sapia.ai 52
1.1 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cornerstone OnDemand 55 · Sapia.ai 62
0.8 weighted points to Sapia.ai
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cornerstone OnDemand 45 · Sapia.ai 50
0.6 weighted points to Sapia.ai
20% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 72 · Sapia.ai 70
0.4 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · Sapia.ai 62
0.3 weighted points to Sapia.ai
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · Sapia.ai 62
0.2 weighted points to Sapia.ai
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that -0.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cornerstone OnDemand minus Sapia.ai.
| Category | Weight | Cornerstone OnDemand | Sapia.ai | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 70 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 52 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 50 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 62 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 56 (F) | - | -0.4 |
§ 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 | Sapia.ai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 | 16 | 4 | 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; Sapia.ai has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cornerstone OnDemand and Sapia.ai sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 40 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains, and 20 for Sapia.ai, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sapia.ai last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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