§ The result
Dayforce leads Factorial by 11 points.
Rubric v1.0 scores the ATS-integrated entries Dayforce and Factorial at 57 and 46, a gap of 11 points. Factorial takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 6 for Dayforce, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dayforce 74, Factorial 52 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
Factorial
Factorial is a Barcelona-based all-in-one HR, finance and IT platform for small and mid-sized businesses. Its applicant tracking system has optional AI matching, which shows a percentage fit for applicants it recommends interviewing, plus CV summaries, AI-written job posts and AI Calls, where a voice agent phone-screens candidates and gives each a match label that can move them to the next stage automatically.
§ The record
Dayforce and Factorial are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dayforce | Factorial |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | ES |
| Founded | 1992 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 39% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Factorial 52
4.4 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Factorial 25
3.1 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Factorial 58
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Factorial 57
0.9 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Factorial 60
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 99% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Factorial 35
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Factorial 48
0.1 weighted points to Factorial
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +11 beside that +11.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Factorial.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Factorial | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 52 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 25 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 57 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 48 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 60 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 46 (F) | +11 | +11.0 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | Factorial | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 27 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Factorial has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Factorial, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Factorial last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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