§ The result
Dayforce leads Korn Ferry by 11 points.
Dayforce sits 11 points above Korn Ferry under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 46 — with Dayforce filed under ATS-integrated and Korn Ferry under Assessment. Dayforce leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Korn Ferry leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Dayforce 70, Korn Ferry 52) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Dayforce 74, Korn Ferry 58), the second being 26% 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
Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry provides psychometric talent assessments (Korn Ferry Assess, the KF4D Four Dimensional assessment, KFALP leadership-potential assessment, and the Leadership Architect competency framework) used to evaluate candidates' personality, competencies, drivers, and cognitive ability for selection, promotion, and development decisions.
§ The record
Dayforce is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Korn Ferry under Assessment 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. Only Korn Ferry is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dayforce | Korn Ferry |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1992 | 1969 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 24% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Korn Ferry 58
3.2 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 41% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Korn Ferry 25
2.3 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Korn Ferry 52
1.9 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Korn Ferry 33
1.7 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Korn Ferry 52
1.6 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Korn Ferry 52
1.4 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Korn Ferry 48
1.1 weighted points to Korn Ferry
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +11.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.2 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 +11.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Korn Ferry.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Korn Ferry | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 58 | +16 | +3.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 48 | -6 | -1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 25 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 52 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 52 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 33 | +14 | +1.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 52 | +18 | +1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 46 (F) | +11 | +11.1 |
§ 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 | Korn Ferry | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Korn Ferry has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 51 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 17 for Korn Ferry, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Korn Ferry last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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