§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Vincere by 12 points.
Rubric v1.0 scores the ATS-integrated entries Workday Recruiting AI and Vincere at 56 and 44, a gap of 12 points. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Workday Recruiting AI, with 1 level: Workday Recruiting AI is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Vincere on Post-Market Monitoring. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Vincere 18, Workday Recruiting AI 60) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 62% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Vincere
Access Vincere Evo is a recruitment-agency CRM and ATS from The Access Group whose Copilot AI scores candidates against a job on a 1-5 star scale, ranks the closest matches from the agency database, and generates job ads, candidate summaries and screening chatbots.
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
Vincere 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 Vincere is in scope of Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Vincere | Workday Recruiting AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 2005 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Vincere 18 · Workday Recruiting AI 60
7.6 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Vincere 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 70
3.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Vincere 55 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Vincere 40 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.6 weighted points to Vincere
15% weight · 97% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Vincere 38 · Workday Recruiting AI 35
0.4 weighted points to Vincere
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Vincere 60 · Workday Recruiting AI 65
0.4 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -11.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -12 beside that -11.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Vincere minus Workday Recruiting AI.
| Category | Weight | Vincere | Workday Recruiting AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 55 | 70 | -15 | -3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 18 | 60 | -42 | -7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 38 | 35 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 65 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 35 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 65 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 44 (F) | 56 (F) | -12 | -11.1 |
§ 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 | Vincere | Workday Recruiting AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 27 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Vincere has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 27 with a source URL, 5 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 Vincere sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 43 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Vincere, across 3 distinct source domains, and 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Vincere last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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