§ The result
Dayforce leads Recruit CRM on all 7 criteria.
Dayforce finishes 17 points clear of Recruit CRM inside the ATS-integrated cohort under rubric v1.0: 57 against 40. Dayforce leads every one of the 7 criteria, Recruit CRM none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, Dayforce 47 to Recruit CRM 42. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dayforce 74, Recruit CRM 34 — and at a 20% weight it carries 48% 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
Recruit CRM
Recruit CRM is an ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies and executive search firms, with AI resume parsing, AI sourcing from an 800M+ profile Global Database, and AI candidate matching that scores and ranks candidates 0–100 with explanations for each dimension.
§ The record
Dayforce and Recruit CRM are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Dayforce is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dayforce | Recruit CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Low |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1992 | Not recorded |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Recruit CRM 34
8.0 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Recruit CRM 20
4.0 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Recruit CRM 54
1.3 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Recruit CRM 58
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Recruit CRM 34
0.9 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Recruit CRM 60
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Recruit CRM 42
0.6 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +16.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +16.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Recruit CRM.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Recruit CRM | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 34 | +40 | +8.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 20 | +22 | +4.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 34 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 54 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 58 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 42 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 60 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 40 (F) | +17 | +16.8 |
§ 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 | Recruit CRM | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 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 | 2 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 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 domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own 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 | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 30 | 5 | 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; Recruit CRM has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 30 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Recruit CRM sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 69 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 35 for Recruit CRM, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Recruit CRM last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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