§ The result
3 points separate Paylocity and Cappfinity.
Paylocity (ATS-integrated) edges Cappfinity (Assessment) by 3 points under rubric v1.0, 43 to 40. Cappfinity takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Human Oversight Design among them, against 6 for Paylocity, whose share includes Article 11 Technical Documentation. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Cappfinity 36, Paylocity 44) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 43% of the weighted advantage Paylocity holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Cappfinity
Cappfinity sells strengths-, skills- and cognitive-reasoning assessments, task-based job simulations, a digital assessment centre and an asynchronous video interview platform with optional AI-assisted scoring, and is used mainly for graduate and early-careers hiring.
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
Cappfinity is filed under Assessment AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | Cappfinity | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2005 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 40% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Cappfinity 36 · Paylocity 44
1.6 weighted points to Paylocity
18% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Cappfinity 28 · Paylocity 33
0.9 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Cappfinity 38 · Paylocity 42
0.5 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 82% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Cappfinity 28 · Paylocity 30
0.3 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Cappfinity 52 · Paylocity 54
0.3 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Cappfinity 52 · Paylocity 50
0.2 weighted points to Cappfinity
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Cappfinity 56 · 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 -3.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 4.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Cappfinity minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Cappfinity | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 36 | 44 | -8 | -1.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 33 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 28 | 30 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 54 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 50 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 42 | -4 | -0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 40 (F) | 43 (F) | -3 | -3.5 |
§ 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 | Cappfinity | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 1 | — | 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% | 5 | 1 | 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% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 29 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Cappfinity has 36 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 29 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; some documentation or audit rows for Cappfinity 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: 36 for Cappfinity, across 6 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Cappfinity last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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