§ The result
3 points separate Workday Recruiting AI and Spark Hire.
Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) edges Spark Hire (Video interview) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 56 to 53. Workday Recruiting AI leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Spark Hire leads 3, including Data Governance Disclosure. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Spark Hire 58, Workday Recruiting AI 70 — and at a 20% weight it carries 67% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Spark Hire
Spark Hire is a hiring platform combining one-way (async) and live video interviewing with an applicant tracking system (via its Comeet acquisition), and adds AI features that score and rank candidates' resumes and one-way video responses to help recruiters prioritize submissions.
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
Spark Hire is filed under Video interview AI, Workday Recruiting AI under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Spark Hire is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Spark Hire | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Spark Hire 58 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
2.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Spark Hire 30 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.8 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Spark Hire 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 55
0.8 weighted points to Spark Hire
18% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Spark Hire 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
0.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Spark Hire 62 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Spark Hire 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Spark Hire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Spark Hire 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 -2.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -2.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Spark Hire minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Spark Hire | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 70 | -12 | -2.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 62 | 60 | +2 | +0.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 35 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 65 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 65 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 56 (F) | -3 | -2.1 |
§ 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 | Spark Hire | 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 the vendor's own 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Spark Hire has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 4 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 Spark Hire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 20 for Spark Hire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Spark Hire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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