§ The result
HiredScore leads UKG by 8 points.
HiredScore scores 52 and UKG 44 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. HiredScore leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while UKG leads 3, including FRIA Support. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — HiredScore 55, UKG 30 — and at an 18% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage HiredScore holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
HiredScore
AI-driven talent orchestration layer that ranks and routes candidates within an existing ATS. Acquired by Workday in 2024.
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
HiredScore 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 | HiredScore | UKG |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2020 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
HiredScore 55 · UKG 30
4.5 weighted points to HiredScore
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
HiredScore 65 · UKG 48
3.4 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiredScore 60 · UKG 52
1.0 weighted points to HiredScore
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
HiredScore 30 · UKG 35
0.8 weighted points to UKG
8% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiredScore 60 · UKG 55
0.4 weighted points to HiredScore
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiredScore 35 · UKG 38
0.4 weighted points to UKG
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
HiredScore 55 · UKG 56
0.1 weighted points to UKG
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +8.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiredScore minus UKG.
| Category | Weight | HiredScore | UKG | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 65 | 48 | +17 | +3.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 55 | 30 | +25 | +4.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 56 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 52 | +8 | +1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 44 (F) | +8 | +8.0 |
§ 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 | HiredScore | UKG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 0 | 2 | — |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 7 | 2 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 6 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiredScore has 9 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 7 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 HiredScore sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 23 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 9 for HiredScore, across 1 distinct source domain, and 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiredScore last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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