§ The result
HiPeople leads Workday Recruiting AI by 5 points.
HiPeople scores 61 (D) and Workday Recruiting AI 56 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Assessment and ATS-integrated cohorts. HiPeople leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Workday Recruiting AI leads 2, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, and 1 is level. HiPeople takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (HiPeople 84, Workday Recruiting AI 60), which is 55% of the weighted advantage HiPeople holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, HiPeople 60 to Workday Recruiting AI 35.
Vendor profile
HiPeople
HiPeople is a Berlin-based hiring platform combining a 400+ test skills and personality assessment library, automated AI reference checks, AI resume/application screening that scores candidates against job criteria, and AI screening calls.
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
HiPeople 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 HiPeople is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiPeople | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | DE | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 44% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiPeople 84 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
4.3 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiPeople 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
3.0 weighted points to HiPeople
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiPeople 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
1.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiPeople 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.4 weighted points to HiPeople
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiPeople 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiPeople 66 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.1 weighted points to HiPeople
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +5.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiPeople minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | HiPeople | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 62 | 70 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 84 | 60 | +24 | +4.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 60 | 35 | +25 | +3.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 65 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 61 (D) | 56 (F) | +5 | +5.9 |
§ 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 | HiPeople | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiPeople has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 8 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 HiPeople sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 42 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 31 for HiPeople, across 3 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiPeople last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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