§ The result
Bryq leads Paycor by 17 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Bryq (Assessment) opens a 17-point lead on Paycor (ATS-integrated), 57 to 40. Paycor takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 6 for Bryq, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Bryq 70, Paycor 25 — and at an 18% weight it carries 46% of the weighted advantage Bryq holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Bryq
Bryq is a science-based talent-intelligence platform whose core product is a short, blind, chatbot-driven pre-hire assessment scoring candidates on cognitive ability, personality/behavioral traits, and job skills to produce a job-fit "match" score used for hiring and internal mobility.
Vendor profile
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
§ The record
Bryq is filed under Assessment AI, Paycor under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act and Colorado AI Act. Only Bryq is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Bryq | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2017 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 46% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Bryq 70 · Paycor 25
8.1 weighted points to Bryq
20% weight · 62% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Bryq 54 · Paycor 40
2.8 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Bryq 55 · Paycor 38
2.0 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 84% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Bryq 40 · Paycor 27
1.9 weighted points to Bryq
15% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Bryq 62 · Paycor 50
1.8 weighted points to Bryq
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Bryq 66 · Paycor 55
0.9 weighted points to Bryq
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Bryq 54 · Paycor 55
0.1 weighted points to Paycor
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +17.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.7 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 +17.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Bryq minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | Bryq | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 54 | 40 | +14 | +2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 70 | 25 | +45 | +8.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 27 | +13 | +1.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 54 | 55 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 55 | 38 | +17 | +2.0 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 66 | 55 | +11 | +0.9 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 40 (F) | +17 | +17.4 |
§ 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 | Bryq | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 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% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 20 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Bryq has 24 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Bryq and Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 24 for Bryq, across 4 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Bryq last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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