§ The result
Cornerstone OnDemand and Workday Recruiting AI tie at 56.
Cornerstone OnDemand and Workday Recruiting AI tie at 56 under rubric v1.0 inside the ATS-integrated cohort, arriving there from different criteria. Cornerstone OnDemand leads 3 of the 7 criteria and Workday Recruiting AI 3, with 1 level, yet the two totals land on the same number. Human Oversight Design is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Cornerstone OnDemand 55, Workday Recruiting AI 65 — and at a 12% weight it carries 61% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 3 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
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Cornerstone OnDemand and Workday Recruiting AI 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 and Colorado AI Act. Only Cornerstone OnDemand is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Cornerstone OnDemand | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 28% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cornerstone OnDemand 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cornerstone OnDemand 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.2 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.8 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 72 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
0.4 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cornerstone OnDemand 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting 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 4.3 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 Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Cornerstone OnDemand | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 70 | +2 | +0.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 60 | -2 | -0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.4 |
| 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 | Workday Recruiting 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 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 15 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | 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; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 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 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next