§ The result
4 points separate Workday Recruiting AI and HiringBranch.
Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) edges HiringBranch (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 56 to 52. Workday Recruiting AI leads 3 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while HiringBranch leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 3 are level. Workday Recruiting AI takes the heaviest weighted swing, Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (HiringBranch 60, Workday Recruiting AI 70), which is 55% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Human Oversight Design, HiringBranch 52 to Workday Recruiting AI 65.
Vendor profile
HiringBranch
HiringBranch is an AI skills-assessment platform that measures 50+ communication and soft skills from candidates' open-ended, conversational job-simulation responses (text and voice) to screen and rank applicants for customer-facing roles.
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
HiringBranch 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 HiringBranch is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | HiringBranch | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | CA | 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
HiringBranch 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
2.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
HiringBranch 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
HiringBranch 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.6 weighted points to HiringBranch
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
HiringBranch 64 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.1 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 4 figures above sum to -3.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -3.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is HiringBranch minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | HiringBranch | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 60 | - | - |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 65 | -13 | -1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 65 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 52 (F) | 56 (F) | -4 | -3.0 |
§ 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 | HiringBranch | 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% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 13 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
HiringBranch 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 HiringBranch, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- HiringBranch last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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