§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads RecruitBot by 19 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) opens a 19-point lead on RecruitBot (Sourcing), 56 to 37. The 7 criteria split 6 to 1 in favour of Workday Recruiting AI: Workday Recruiting AI is ahead on Article 11 Technical Documentation and RecruitBot on Post-Market Monitoring. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Bias Audit Transparency (RecruitBot 22, Workday Recruiting AI 60) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (RecruitBot 33, Workday Recruiting AI 70), the second being 39% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
RecruitBot
RecruitBot is an AI sourcing platform that searches a proprietary database of 655M+ candidate profiles, re-ranks results with machine learning trained on each recruiter's star ratings, and automates personalized email outreach.
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
RecruitBot is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Workday Recruiting AI 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.
| Record | RecruitBot | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
RecruitBot 33 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
7.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
18% weight · 72% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
RecruitBot 22 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
6.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 81% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
RecruitBot 50 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
RecruitBot 27 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
RecruitBot 48 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.1 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
RecruitBot 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
RecruitBot 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.6 weighted points to RecruitBot
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -18.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -18.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is RecruitBot minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | RecruitBot | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 33 | 70 | -37 | -7.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 60 | -38 | -6.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 27 | 35 | -8 | -1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 48 | 55 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 65 | -15 | -1.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 56 (F) | -19 | -18.5 |
§ 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 | RecruitBot | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 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% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own 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% | 25 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
RecruitBot has 31 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 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; some documentation or audit rows for RecruitBot 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 RecruitBot, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- RecruitBot last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next