§ The result
Cornerstone OnDemand leads Workstream by 17 points.
Cornerstone OnDemand finishes 17 points clear of Workstream under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 39 — across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Cornerstone OnDemand leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Workstream leads 1, including Human Oversight Design. The advantage Cornerstone OnDemand holds is spread out: Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Cornerstone OnDemand 58, Workstream 20, 18% weight), yet it supplies only 38% of the weighted points Cornerstone OnDemand gains 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
Workstream
Workstream is a mobile-first HR, payroll and hiring platform for hourly, multi-location employers such as QSR franchisees. Its hiring suite pairs a text-to-apply applicant tracking system with VoiceAI phone screens and VideoAI asynchronous video interviews, which return transcripts, AI summaries, pass/fail results for each question and match scores.
§ The record
Cornerstone OnDemand is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Workstream under Screening 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 | Workstream |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1999 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cornerstone OnDemand 58 · Workstream 20
6.8 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
20% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 72 · Workstream 40
6.4 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · Workstream 47
1.9 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cornerstone OnDemand 35 · Workstream 27
1.2 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cornerstone OnDemand 45 · Workstream 35
1.2 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cornerstone OnDemand 55 · Workstream 61
0.7 weighted points to Workstream
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cornerstone OnDemand 60 · Workstream 56
0.3 weighted points to Cornerstone OnDemand
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +17.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cornerstone OnDemand minus Workstream.
| Category | Weight | Cornerstone OnDemand | Workstream | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 72 | 40 | +32 | +6.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 58 | 20 | +38 | +6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 47 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 61 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 39 (F) | +17 | +17.2 |
§ 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 | Workstream | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 28 | 6 | Sources 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; Workstream has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Cornerstone OnDemand and Workstream sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Cornerstone OnDemand, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Workstream, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cornerstone OnDemand last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workstream last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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