§ The result
Rippling and Workday Recruiting AI tie at 56.
Rippling and Workday Recruiting AI tie at 56 under rubric v1.0 inside the ATS-integrated cohort, arriving there from different criteria. Rippling leads 4 of the 7 criteria and Workday Recruiting AI 3, yet the two totals land on the same number. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Rippling 42, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 83% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 3 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Rippling
Rippling Recruiting is an applicant tracking system within Rippling's all-in-one HR/IT/finance platform that uses AI to review and screen job applications, summarize interviewer feedback, transcribe video interviews, flag application fraud, and automate interview scheduling.
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
Rippling 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.
| Record | Rippling | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 37% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Rippling 42 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
3.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 54% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Rippling 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.5 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Rippling 47 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.4 weighted points to Rippling
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Rippling 64 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.3 weighted points to Rippling
20% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Rippling 73 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
0.6 weighted points to Rippling
12% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Rippling 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Rippling 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 7 figures above sum to +1.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads 0 beside that +1.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Rippling minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Rippling | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 73 | 70 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 55 | +9 | +1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 35 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 65 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 56 (F) | - | +1.0 |
§ 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 | Rippling | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | 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 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 12 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Rippling has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; 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 24 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Rippling, across 1 distinct source domain, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Rippling last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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