§ The result
Dayforce leads micro1 on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Dayforce (ATS-integrated) opens a 21-point lead on micro1 (Screening), 57 to 36. micro1 leads none of the 7 criteria, and Dayforce is ahead on 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, Article 11 Technical Documentation among them. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Dayforce 70, micro1 45) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Dayforce 74, micro1 50), the second being 23% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 7 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
micro1
Zara, micro1's LLM-based AI interviewer, runs recorded, adaptive spoken interviews (with optional coding exercises and automated proctoring) and returns per-skill proficiency ratings, soft-skill ratings and a proctoring score; micro1 uses it to certify experts for its own AI-training talent network, and employers can use it through a client portal and API.
§ The record
Dayforce is filed under ATS-integrated AI, micro1 under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only micro1 is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Dayforce | micro1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1992 | 2022 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 23% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · micro1 50
4.8 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · micro1 20
4.0 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · micro1 22
2.7 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · micro1 45
2.7 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · micro1 25
2.6 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · micro1 48
2.4 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · micro1 45
2.0 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +21.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 21.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +21 beside that +21.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus micro1.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | micro1 | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 50 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 22 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 45 | +18 | +2.7 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 48 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 25 | +22 | +2.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 45 | +25 | +2.0 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 36 (F) | +21 | +21.2 |
§ 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 | micro1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 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 | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 25 | 8 | 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; micro1 has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for micro1 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 67 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 33 for micro1, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- micro1 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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