§ The result
Classet leads Paycor on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Classet finishes 15 points clear of Paycor under rubric v1.0 — 55 against 40 — across the Screening and ATS-integrated cohorts. Classet leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Paycor is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Classet leads is Article 11 Technical Documentation, Classet 46 to Paycor 40. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Classet 76, Paycor 25) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 60% of the weighted advantage Classet holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Classet
Classet's AI voice recruiter, Joy, phones hourly and frontline applicants within about a minute of applying, runs employer-scripted screening interviews with binary knockout questions, and sends recruiters recordings, transcripts, summaries and a qualified/unqualified outcome, either in Classet's lightweight ATS or in 100+ connected ATSs.
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
Classet is filed under Screening AI, Paycor under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Classet | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2021 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 60% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Classet 76 · Paycor 25
9.2 weighted points to Classet
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Classet 58 · Paycor 38
2.4 weighted points to Classet
20% weight · 84% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Classet 46 · Paycor 40
1.2 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Classet 57 · Paycor 50
1.1 weighted points to Classet
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Classet 33 · Paycor 27
0.9 weighted points to Classet
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Classet 62 · Paycor 55
0.6 weighted points to Classet
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +15.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +15.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Classet minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | Classet | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 46 | 40 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 76 | 25 | +51 | +9.2 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 33 | 27 | +6 | +0.9 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 38 | +20 | +2.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 55 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 55 (F) | 40 (F) | +15 | +15.3 |
§ 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 | Classet | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 3 | 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 5 | 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 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 5 | 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 |
Classet has 38 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 5 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 Classet and Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 68 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 38 for Classet, across 3 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Classet last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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