§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Fetcher on 5 of the 7 criteria.
Workday Recruiting AI finishes 19 points clear of Fetcher under rubric v1.0 — 56 against 37 — across the ATS-integrated and Sourcing cohorts. Workday Recruiting AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria and the remaining 2 are level, so Fetcher is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 5 Workday Recruiting AI leads is FRIA Support, Fetcher 25 to Workday Recruiting AI 35. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fetcher 27, Workday Recruiting AI 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 47% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Fetcher
AI-powered candidate sourcing and outbound recruiting platform that automates passive and active talent sourcing, personalized email outreach, and inbound applicant screening for corporate recruiting teams.
Vendor profile
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday ATS.
§ The record
Fetcher is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Workday Recruiting AI 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 Fetcher is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Fetcher | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fetcher 27 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
8.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fetcher 28 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
5.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fetcher 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fetcher 25 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fetcher 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to -18.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fetcher minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Fetcher | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 27 | 70 | -43 | -8.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 60 | -32 | -5.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 65 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 56 (F) | -19 | -18.2 |
§ 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 | Fetcher | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Fetcher has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Fetcher, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fetcher last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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