§ The result
UKG leads XOR on all 7 criteria.
UKG sits 14 points above XOR under rubric v1.0 — 44 against 30 — with UKG filed under ATS-integrated and XOR under Screening. UKG leads every one of the 7 criteria, XOR none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Post-Market Monitoring, UKG 38 to XOR 33. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — UKG 48, XOR 20 — and at a 20% weight it carries 40% of the weighted advantage UKG holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
UKG
UKG is an enterprise HCM and workforce-management suite whose UKG Pro Recruiting applicant-tracking module, augmented by the embedded Bryte AI layer, drafts job descriptions and produces profile-match candidate scores to rank and shortlist applicants.
Vendor profile
XOR
XOR is a text-first conversational-AI recruiting platform that pre-screens and scores high-volume and hourly candidates with recruiter-defined knockout/scoring questions over SMS, WhatsApp, and Messenger, then auto-schedules interviews on the recruiter's calendar.
§ The record
UKG is filed under ATS-integrated AI, XOR under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | UKG | XOR |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2020 | 2016 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
UKG 48 · XOR 20
5.6 weighted points to UKG
18% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
UKG 30 · XOR 18
2.2 weighted points to UKG
15% weight · 71% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
UKG 56 · XOR 42
2.1 weighted points to UKG
15% weight · 81% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
UKG 35 · XOR 25
1.5 weighted points to UKG
12% weight · 92% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
UKG 52 · XOR 40
1.4 weighted points to UKG
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
UKG 38 · XOR 33
0.6 weighted points to UKG
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
UKG 55 · XOR 48
0.6 weighted points to UKG
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 14.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +14 beside that +14.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is UKG minus XOR.
| Category | Weight | UKG | XOR | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 20 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 18 | +12 | +2.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 25 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 42 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 40 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 33 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 30 (F) | +14 | +14.0 |
§ 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 | UKG | XOR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 0 | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 8 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
UKG has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 8 documented absences; XOR has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 32 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 14 for UKG, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for XOR, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- UKG last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- XOR last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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