§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads HighMatch by 13 points.
Workday Recruiting AI, filed under ATS-integrated, comes out 13 points above HighMatch, filed under Assessment: 56 against 43 under rubric v1.0. Workday Recruiting AI leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while HighMatch leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HighMatch 30, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 42% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HighMatch
HighMatch sells pre-employment assessments built by I-O psychologists (personality, cognitive, skills, situational judgment, culture fit and minimum-qualification screens), including the Berke Assessment for small businesses, that score candidates against weighted, role-specific hiring profiles and return job-fit scores, trait reports and tailored interview guides.
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
HighMatch is filed under Assessment AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only HighMatch is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HighMatch | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2005 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HighMatch 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
5.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HighMatch 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
5.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 83% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HighMatch 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HighMatch 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HighMatch 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.6 weighted points to HighMatch
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HighMatch 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HighMatch 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HighMatch minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | HighMatch | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 70 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 60 | -30 | -5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 56 (F) | -13 | -12.2 |
§ 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 | HighMatch | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 31 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HighMatch has 35 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 31 with a source URL, 4 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 HighMatch sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 35 for HighMatch, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HighMatch last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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