§ The result
Paylocity leads Brazen on all 7 criteria.
Paylocity scores 43 and Brazen 38 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the ATS-integrated and Screening cohorts. Paylocity is ahead of Brazen on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Bias Audit Transparency at Brazen 30 to Paylocity 33. Data Governance Disclosure is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Brazen 45, Paylocity 54, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 29% of the weighted advantage Paylocity holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Brazen
Brazen is a recruiting events platform (acquired by Radancy in 2023) that runs virtual and in-person hiring events with a recruiting chatbot, configurable knockout pre-screening, resume filtering, built-in candidate rankings/recommendations, and 1:1 text, audio, and video chats.
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
Brazen is filed under Screening AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Video interview and Scheduling.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brazen | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2007 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brazen 45 · Paylocity 54
1.3 weighted points to Paylocity
20% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brazen 40 · Paylocity 44
0.8 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 63% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Brazen 25 · Paylocity 30
0.8 weighted points to Paylocity
18% weight · 74% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brazen 30 · Paylocity 33
0.5 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brazen 46 · Paylocity 50
0.5 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brazen 38 · Paylocity 42
0.5 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Brazen 55 · Paylocity 58
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -4.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -5 beside that -4.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brazen minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Brazen | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 40 | 44 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 30 | 33 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 46 | 50 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 58 | -3 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 38 (F) | 43 (F) | -5 | -4.6 |
§ 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 | Brazen | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 0 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 6 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Brazen has 13 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 6 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 31 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 13 for Brazen, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brazen last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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