§ The result
2 points separate Sense and Workday Recruiting AI.
Sense (Screening) edges Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) by 2 points under rubric v1.0, 58 to 56. Sense leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Workday Recruiting AI leads 3, including Article 11 Technical Documentation. Sense takes the heaviest weighted swing, Bias Audit Transparency at 18% (Sense 72, Workday Recruiting AI 60), which is 42% of the weighted advantage Sense holds; the widest raw gap is a different criterion, Post-Market Monitoring, Sense 52 to Workday Recruiting AI 35.
Vendor profile
Sense
Sense is a conversational AI talent engagement platform that screens, scores, matches, and schedules candidates for high-volume recruiting via chatbot, SMS/WhatsApp, and voice AI on top of a customer's ATS.
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
Sense is filed under Screening AI, Workday Recruiting AI 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 Sense is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Sense | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sense 72 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
2.2 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sense 52 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
2.0 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 83% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sense 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
2.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 89% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sense 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sense 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.4 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sense 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sense 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 +2.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.5 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +2 beside that +2.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sense minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Sense | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 70 | -10 | -2.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 60 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 65 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 56 (F) | +2 | +2.7 |
§ 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 | Sense | 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% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate 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% | 16 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 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 Sense sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 30 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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