§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Recruitly by 15 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Workday Recruiting AI opens a 15-point lead on Recruitly, 56 to 41, with both scored in the ATS-integrated cohort. Workday Recruiting AI leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Recruitly leads 1, including Post-Market Monitoring, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Recruitly 15, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 51% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Recruitly
Recruitly is an all-in-one ATS and CRM for recruitment agencies. It includes AI candidate matching, which ranks candidates against live jobs and shows its reasons, and AI application review, which scores and explains each applicant against the job spec. It also offers external profile sourcing, CV parsing, an AI phone system and an AI meeting assistant.
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
Recruitly and Workday Recruiting AI are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Sourcing.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Recruitly is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Recruitly | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | AE | US |
| Founded | 2015 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Recruitly 15 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
8.1 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Recruitly 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
5.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Recruitly 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Recruitly 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.2 weighted points to Recruitly
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Recruitly 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Recruitly 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -14.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -15 beside that -14.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Recruitly minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Recruitly | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 45 | 70 | -25 | -5.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 15 | 60 | -45 | -8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 55 | -10 | -1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 56 (F) | -15 | -14.6 |
§ 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 | Recruitly | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 6 | 0 | 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% | 32 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Recruitly has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 32 with a source URL, 5 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 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Recruitly, across 3 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Recruitly last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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