§ The result
Sense leads Workstream on all 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Sense opens a 19-point lead on Workstream, 58 to 39, with both scored in the Screening cohort. Sense leads every one of the 7 criteria, Workstream none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Sense 64 to Workstream 61. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Sense 72, Workstream 20) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage Sense holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
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
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
Sense and Workstream are both filed under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Workstream is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Sense | Workstream |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2016 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Sense 72 · Workstream 20
9.4 weighted points to Sense
20% weight · 68% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Sense 60 · Workstream 40
4.0 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Sense 52 · Workstream 35
2.0 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Sense 38 · Workstream 27
1.6 weighted points to Sense
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Sense 58 · Workstream 47
1.6 weighted points to Sense
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Sense 62 · Workstream 56
0.5 weighted points to Sense
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Sense 64 · Workstream 61
0.4 weighted points to Sense
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +19.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.5 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 +19.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Sense minus Workstream.
| Category | Weight | Sense | Workstream | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 72 | 20 | +52 | +9.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 27 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 47 | +11 | +1.6 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 64 | 61 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 52 | 35 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 56 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 39 (F) | +19 | +19.5 |
§ 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 | Sense | Workstream | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 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 | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 3 | 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 |
Sense has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 3 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 Sense and Workstream sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 53 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Sense, across 2 distinct source domains, and 34 for Workstream, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Sense last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workstream last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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