§ The result
Criteria leads Paylocity on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Criteria sits 10 points above Paylocity under rubric v1.0 — 53 against 43 — with Criteria filed under Assessment and Paylocity under ATS-integrated. Criteria 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 Criteria leads is FRIA Support, Criteria 32 to Paylocity 30. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Criteria 68, Paylocity 44 — and at a 20% weight it carries 49% of the weighted advantage Criteria holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
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
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
Criteria is filed under Assessment AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 2 secondary categories: Screening and Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Criteria | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2006 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Criteria 68 · Paylocity 44
4.8 weighted points to Criteria
18% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Criteria 48 · Paylocity 33
2.7 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Criteria 62 · Paylocity 54
1.2 weighted points to Criteria
12% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Criteria 56 · Paylocity 50
0.7 weighted points to Criteria
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Criteria 32 · Paylocity 30
0.3 weighted points to Criteria
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Criteria 60 · Paylocity 58
0.2 weighted points to Criteria
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +9.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 9.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +10 beside that +9.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Criteria minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Criteria | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 68 | 44 | +24 | +4.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 48 | 33 | +15 | +2.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 62 | 54 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 56 | 50 | +6 | +0.7 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 58 | +2 | +0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 53 (F) | 43 (F) | +10 | +9.9 |
§ 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 | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 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 | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | 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% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Criteria has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 4 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 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Criteria, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Criteria last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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