§ The result
Criteria leads Paycor on all 7 criteria.
Criteria sits 13 points above Paycor under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 40 — with Criteria filed under Assessment and Paycor under ATS-integrated. Criteria leads every one of the 7 criteria, Paycor none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Criteria 56 to Paycor 55. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (Criteria 68, Paycor 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 42% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Criteria
Criteria is a pre-employment assessment platform offering scientifically validated cognitive aptitude, personality, emotional-intelligence and skills tests, plus structured and AI-assisted interview tools, used to evaluate and rank job candidates.
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
Criteria 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 Criteria is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | 1990 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · Paycor 40
5.6 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · Paycor 25
4.1 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 87% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · Paycor 50
1.8 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 92% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · Paycor 27
0.8 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Criteria 42 · Paycor 38
0.5 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · Paycor 55
0.4 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · Paycor 55
0.1 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +13.3 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 13.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +13 beside that +13.3.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus Paycor.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 40 | +28 | +5.6 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 25 | +23 | +4.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 27 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 50 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 55 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 40 (F) | +13 | +13.3 |
§ 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 | Criteria | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | 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% | 2 | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 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 Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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