§ The result
Braintrust AIR leads Paylocity on all 7 criteria.
Braintrust AIR finishes 16 points clear of Paylocity under rubric v1.0 — 59 against 43 — across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Of the 7 criteria Paylocity wins none, and the narrowest lead Braintrust AIR holds is on Data Governance Disclosure, Braintrust AIR 56 to Paylocity 54. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Braintrust AIR 75, Paylocity 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 48% of the weighted advantage Braintrust AIR holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Braintrust AIR
Braintrust AIR is an enterprise AI interviewer that runs recorded conversational voice interviews, scores the transcribed answers against recruiter-editable rubric criteria, and sends ranked scorecards, transcripts and recordings to the employer's ATS for human review.
Vendor profile
Paylocity
Paylocity is a cloud-based HCM and payroll platform whose talent suite includes an applicant tracking system with generative-AI job-description and invite drafting, one-way video interviews, candidate self-scheduling, and a conversational "AI Assistant."
§ The record
Braintrust AIR is filed under Screening AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Braintrust AIR | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2018 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Braintrust AIR 75 · Paylocity 33
7.6 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
20% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Braintrust AIR 58 · Paylocity 44
2.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Braintrust AIR 62 · Paylocity 42
2.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
12% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Braintrust AIR 62 · Paylocity 50
1.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Braintrust AIR 35 · Paylocity 30
0.8 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
8% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Braintrust AIR 63 · Paylocity 58
0.4 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Braintrust AIR 56 · Paylocity 54
0.3 weighted points to Braintrust AIR
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Braintrust AIR minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Braintrust AIR | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 58 | 44 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 75 | 33 | +42 | +7.6 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 35 | 30 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 56 | 54 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 62 | 42 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 63 | 58 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 59 (F) | 43 (F) | +16 | +15.7 |
§ 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 | Braintrust AIR | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 3 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Braintrust AIR has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Braintrust AIR sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Braintrust AIR, across 4 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Braintrust AIR last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next