§ The result
4 points separate Dayforce and Criteria.
Dayforce (ATS-integrated) edges Criteria (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 57 to 53. Dayforce leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Human Oversight Design, while Criteria leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. Human Oversight Design is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Criteria 56, Dayforce 68, 12% weight), but it accounts for only 27% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
§ The record
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, Dayforce under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Criteria is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | Dayforce |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | 1992 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · Dayforce 68
1.4 weighted points to Dayforce
20% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · Dayforce 74
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 59% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · Dayforce 40
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · Dayforce 42
1.1 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · Dayforce 70
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · Dayforce 47
0.6 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · Dayforce 63
0.1 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus Dayforce.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Dayforce | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 74 | -6 | -1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 42 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 40 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 63 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 68 | -12 | -1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 47 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 57 (F) | -4 | -4.3 |
§ 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 | Criteria | Dayforce | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 52 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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