§ The result
Sense takes the total, Dayforce takes more of the criteria.
Sense (Screening) edges Dayforce (ATS-integrated) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 58 to 57. Dayforce leads more of the criteria than Sense — 5 to 2 — but Bias Audit Transparency, which Sense leads, carries 18% of the rubric, and the weighted sum still falls to Sense. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Dayforce 42, Sense 72 — and at an 18% weight it carries 90% of the weighted advantage Sense holds across the 2 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
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
§ The record
Dayforce is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Sense 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.
| Record | Dayforce | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1992 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Sense 72
5.4 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Sense 60
2.8 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Sense 58
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Sense 62
0.6 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Sense 52
0.6 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Sense 64
0.5 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Sense 38
0.3 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -1.0 — 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 -1 beside that -1.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Sense.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Sense | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 60 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 72 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 38 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 64 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 52 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 62 | +8 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 58 (F) | -1 | -1.0 |
§ 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 | Sense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources 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 | 3 | 0 | 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 16 | 3 | 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; Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Sense 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 Sense, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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