§ The result
SmartRecruiters leads Workday Recruiting AI by 6 points.
SmartRecruiters scores 62 (D) and Workday Recruiting AI 56 (F) under rubric v1.0 — a 6-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. SmartRecruiters leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while Workday Recruiting AI leads 2, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — SmartRecruiters 78, Workday Recruiting AI 60 — and at an 18% weight it carries 44% of the weighted advantage SmartRecruiters holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters is an enterprise applicant tracking system and talent acquisition suite whose AI layer (the Winston assistant plus SmartAssistant/Winston Match) screens, ranks, and matches candidates to requisitions to support recruiter decisions.
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
SmartRecruiters 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 SmartRecruiters is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | SmartRecruiters | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2010 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 41% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
SmartRecruiters 78 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
3.2 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
SmartRecruiters 48 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.6 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
SmartRecruiters 45 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
1.5 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
SmartRecruiters 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
1.1 weighted points to SmartRecruiters
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
SmartRecruiters 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
SmartRecruiters 63 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +6.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +6 beside that +6.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is SmartRecruiters minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | SmartRecruiters | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 70 | - | - |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 78 | 60 | +18 | +3.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 45 | 35 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 48 | 35 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 65 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 62 (D) | 56 (F) | +6 | +6.8 |
§ 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 | SmartRecruiters | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate 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% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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% | 11 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
SmartRecruiters has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 2 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 SmartRecruiters sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 24 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for SmartRecruiters, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- SmartRecruiters last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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