§ The result
LinkedIn Recruiter leads Workstream on all 7 criteria.
LinkedIn Recruiter finishes 18 points clear of Workstream under rubric v1.0 — 57 against 39 — across the Sourcing and Screening cohorts. LinkedIn Recruiter takes all 7 criteria and Workstream none of them; the nearest contest is Human Oversight Design, LinkedIn Recruiter 66 to Workstream 61. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap (LinkedIn Recruiter 50, Workstream 20) but not the heaviest weighted swing, which is Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (LinkedIn Recruiter 67, Workstream 40), 30% of the weighted advantage LinkedIn Recruiter builds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is LinkedIn's enterprise sourcing and candidate-management platform, whose Hiring Assistant add-on and AI-Assisted Search use AI to turn intake notes into qualifications, source and rank candidates, evaluate applicants against recruiter-set qualifications, and draft or send outreach.
Vendor profile
Workstream
Workstream is a mobile-first HR, payroll and hiring platform for hourly, multi-location employers such as QSR franchisees. Its hiring suite pairs a text-to-apply applicant tracking system with VoiceAI phone screens and VideoAI asynchronous video interviews, which return transcripts, AI summaries, pass/fail results for each question and match scores.
§ The record
LinkedIn Recruiter is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Workstream under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Workstream is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | LinkedIn Recruiter | Workstream |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2002 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 30% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 67 · Workstream 40
5.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Workstream 20
5.4 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
LinkedIn Recruiter 62 · Workstream 47
2.3 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
LinkedIn Recruiter 50 · Workstream 35
1.8 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
LinkedIn Recruiter 38 · Workstream 27
1.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
LinkedIn Recruiter 68 · Workstream 56
1.0 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
LinkedIn Recruiter 66 · Workstream 61
0.6 weighted points to LinkedIn Recruiter
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 18.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LinkedIn Recruiter minus Workstream.
| Category | Weight | LinkedIn Recruiter | Workstream | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 67 | 40 | +27 | +5.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 20 | +30 | +5.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 27 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 47 | +15 | +2.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 61 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 50 | 35 | +15 | +1.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 68 | 56 | +12 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 39 (F) | +18 | +18.1 |
§ 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 | LinkedIn Recruiter | Workstream | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 34 | 5 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
LinkedIn Recruiter has 39 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; Workstream has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LinkedIn Recruiter and Workstream sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 73 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 39 for LinkedIn Recruiter, across 6 distinct source domains, and 34 for Workstream, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- LinkedIn Recruiter last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workstream last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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