§ The result
1 point separates Workday Recruiting AI and Gem.
Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) edges Gem (Sourcing) by 1 point under rubric v1.0, 56 to 55. Gem and Workday Recruiting AI each lead 3 of the 7 criteria, with 1 level, though the side of the split Workday Recruiting AI holds (headed by Article 11 Technical Documentation) adds up to more weighted points. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Gem 58, Workday Recruiting AI 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 77% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Gem
Gem is an AI-first recruiting platform combining a talent CRM, AI sourcing and outreach automation, candidate engagement, and a newer applicant tracking system with AI-powered application review and ranking.
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
Gem 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, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Gem is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Gem | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Gem 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
2.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Gem 47 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.4 weighted points to Gem
18% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Gem 66 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
1.1 weighted points to Gem
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Gem 61 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Gem 57 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.3 weighted points to Gem
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Gem 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -0.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.9 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 -0.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Gem minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Gem | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 66 | 60 | +6 | +1.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 55 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 65 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 35 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 56 (F) | -1 | -0.3 |
§ 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 | Gem | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 19 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Gem has 21 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 19 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Gem sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 21 for Gem, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Gem last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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