§ The result
Cornerstone OnDemand leads softgarden by 14 points.
Rubric v1.0 scores the ATS-integrated entries Cornerstone OnDemand and softgarden at 56 and 42, a gap of 14 points. softgarden takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 6 for Cornerstone OnDemand, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Cornerstone OnDemand 58, softgarden 22) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 45% 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
softgarden
softgarden is a German cloud applicant tracking system (multiposting, career sites, applicant management and onboarding) with optional AI features: AI-Assisted Applicant Matching, which highlights applicants who closely match a job's requirements, and a newer LLM-based Screening Assistant, which scores each applicant against screening criteria.
§ The record
Cornerstone OnDemand and softgarden 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 | softgarden |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | DE |
| Founded | 1999 | 2001 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cornerstone OnDemand 58 · softgarden 22
6.5 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 72 · softgarden 42
6.0 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · softgarden 54
0.9 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cornerstone OnDemand 35 · softgarden 30
0.8 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cornerstone OnDemand 55 · softgarden 58
0.4 weighted points to softgarden
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · softgarden 58
0.2 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cornerstone OnDemand 45 · softgarden 44
0.1 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cornerstone OnDemand minus softgarden.
| Category | Weight | Cornerstone OnDemand | softgarden | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 42 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 22 | +36 | +6.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 44 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 42 (F) | +14 | +14.1 |
§ 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 | softgarden | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 7 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 31 | 5 | 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; softgarden has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 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 56 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains, and 36 for softgarden, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- softgarden last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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