§ The result
Dayforce leads isolved by 10 points.
Both filed under ATS-integrated, Dayforce and isolved come out 57 and 47 under rubric v1.0, 10 points in favour of Dayforce. isolved takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Bias Audit Transparency among them, against 5 for Dayforce, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Dayforce 74, isolved 50) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 46% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 5 criteria it leads.
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
isolved
isolved is a US HCM and payroll provider whose isolved Talent Acquisition applicant tracking system (formerly ApplicantPro) uses AI Candidate Matching to score each applicant's resume against the job description and sort the applicant list, alongside AI job-ad writing and WedgeHR-powered one-way video interviews.
§ The record
Dayforce and isolved 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 | isolved |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1992 | 1986 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · isolved 50
4.8 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · isolved 55
1.6 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · isolved 30
1.5 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · isolved 53
1.5 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · isolved 56
1.1 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · isolved 45
0.5 weighted points to isolved
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +9.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 11.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus isolved.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | isolved | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 50 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 45 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 53 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 47 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 56 | +14 | +1.1 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 47 (F) | +10 | +9.9 |
§ 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 | isolved | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 31 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; isolved has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for isolved sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 36 for isolved, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- isolved last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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