§ The result
BrightHire leads Paylocity on 6 of the 7 criteria.
BrightHire scores 51 and Paylocity 43 under rubric v1.0, an 8-point gap across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. BrightHire leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Paylocity is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 BrightHire leads is Customer Documentation, BrightHire 62 to Paylocity 58. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (BrightHire 50, Paylocity 33, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 38% of the weighted advantage BrightHire holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
BrightHire
BrightHire is an interview intelligence platform that records, transcribes and analyzes hiring interviews into competency-structured notes and ATS scorecards, and additionally runs AI-led screening interviews (BrightHire Screen) that score and rank candidates against customer-defined rubrics.
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
BrightHire 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 | BrightHire | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2019 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
BrightHire 50 · Paylocity 33
3.1 weighted points to BrightHire
20% weight · 58% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
BrightHire 52 · Paylocity 44
1.6 weighted points to BrightHire
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
BrightHire 60 · Paylocity 50
1.2 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 85% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
BrightHire 36 · Paylocity 30
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
BrightHire 60 · Paylocity 54
0.9 weighted points to BrightHire
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
BrightHire 62 · Paylocity 58
0.3 weighted points to BrightHire
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +8.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +8.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is BrightHire minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | BrightHire | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 44 | +8 | +1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 50 | 33 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 36 | 30 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 60 | 54 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 60 | 50 | +10 | +1.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 51 (F) | 43 (F) | +8 | +8.0 |
§ 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 | BrightHire | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
BrightHire has 23 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 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 41 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 23 for BrightHire, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- BrightHire last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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