§ The result
Workday Recruiting AI leads Workstream on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Under rubric v1.0, Workday Recruiting AI (ATS-integrated) opens a 17-point lead on Workstream (Screening), 56 to 39. Workstream is ahead on none of the 7 criteria: Workday Recruiting AI takes 6, the remaining criterion is level, and the nearest of those 6 is Human Oversight Design, Workday Recruiting AI 65 to Workstream 61. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Workday Recruiting AI 60, Workstream 20 — and at an 18% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Workday Recruiting AI holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Workday Recruiting AI
AI features built into Workday Recruiting, including candidate-skill matching and recruiter productivity tools, surfaced inside the Workday 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
Workday Recruiting AI is filed under ATS-integrated AI, Workstream under Screening AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Colorado AI Act. Only Workstream is in scope of Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Workday Recruiting AI | Workstream |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2005 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 43% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Workday Recruiting AI 60 · Workstream 20
7.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Workday Recruiting AI 70 · Workstream 40
6.0 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Workday Recruiting AI 35 · Workstream 27
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
15% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Workday Recruiting AI 55 · Workstream 47
1.2 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
8% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Workday Recruiting AI 65 · Workstream 56
0.7 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Workday Recruiting AI 65 · Workstream 61
0.5 weighted points to Workday Recruiting AI
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +16.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +17 beside that +16.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Workday Recruiting AI minus Workstream.
| Category | Weight | Workday Recruiting AI | Workstream | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 40 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 60 | 20 | +40 | +7.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 27 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 47 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 65 | 61 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 65 | 56 | +9 | +0.7 |
| Total | 100% | 56 (F) | 39 (F) | +17 | +16.8 |
§ 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 | Workday Recruiting AI | Workstream | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 7 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 0 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 2 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Workday Recruiting AI has 11 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 2 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 Workstream sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 45 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 11 for Workday Recruiting AI, across 1 distinct source domain, and 34 for Workstream, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Workday Recruiting AI last reviewed
- May 21, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Workstream last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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