§ The result
Eightfold AI leads UKG on all 7 criteria.
Eightfold AI finishes 20 points clear of UKG under rubric v1.0 — 64 (D) against 44 (F) — across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Eightfold AI leads every one of the 7 criteria, UKG none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Data Governance Disclosure, Eightfold AI 60 to UKG 56. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Eightfold AI 85, UKG 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Eightfold AI holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Eightfold AI
Talent intelligence platform offering candidate matching, internal mobility, and career-site personalization on top of a deep-learning talent graph.
Vendor profile
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
§ The record
Eightfold AI is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, UKG under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and NYC LL 144. Only UKG is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Eightfold AI | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Eightfold AI 85 · UKG 30
9.9 weighted points to Eightfold AI
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Eightfold AI 75 · UKG 48
5.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Eightfold AI 45 · UKG 35
1.5 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Eightfold AI 50 · UKG 38
1.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Eightfold AI 60 · UKG 52
1.0 weighted points to Eightfold AI
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Eightfold AI 60 · UKG 56
0.6 weighted points to Eightfold AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Eightfold AI 60 · UKG 55
0.4 weighted points to Eightfold AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +20.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 20.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +20 beside that +20.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Eightfold AI minus UKG.
| Category | Weight | Eightfold AI | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 75 | 48 | +27 | +5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 85 | 30 | +55 | +9.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 56 | +4 | +0.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 38 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 64 (D) | 44 (F) | +20 | +20.2 |
§ 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 | Eightfold AI | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 2 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 6 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Eightfold AI has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Eightfold AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 29 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for Eightfold AI, across 2 distinct source domains, and 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Eightfold AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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