§ The result
Dayforce leads Lever on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Dayforce scores 57 and Lever 49 under rubric v1.0 — an 8-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Dayforce leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Lever is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Dayforce leads is Post-Market Monitoring, Dayforce 47 to Lever 45. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dayforce 74, Lever 52 — and at a 20% weight it carries 52% 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
Lever
Lever is an AI-powered applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM that centralizes sourcing, candidate relationship management, AI candidate matching (Talent Fit), and hiring analytics for high-growth employers.
§ The record
Dayforce and Lever 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 | Lever |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1992 | 2012 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 52% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Lever 52
4.4 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 66% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Lever 32
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Lever 60
1.0 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Lever 58
1.0 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Lever 58
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Lever 45
0.2 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +8.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Lever.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Lever | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 52 | +22 | +4.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 32 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 60 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 45 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 58 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 49 (F) | +8 | +8.5 |
§ 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 | Lever | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain |
| 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 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 6 | Sources 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; Lever has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Lever sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 19 for Lever, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Lever last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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