§ The result
Dayforce leads Paycom on all 7 criteria.
Dayforce scores 57 and Paycom 50 under rubric v1.0 — a 7-point gap inside the ATS-integrated cohort. Dayforce is ahead of Paycom on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being Data Governance Disclosure at Dayforce 63 to Paycom 62. Human Oversight Design is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Dayforce 68, Paycom 55, 12% weight), but it accounts for only 22% of the weighted advantage Dayforce holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Dayforce
Dayforce is an enterprise human capital management platform whose Dayforce Recruiting module uses AI to assign letter grades to external job applicants, generate job descriptions, and automate screening and hiring workflows alongside HR, payroll, time, talent, and analytics.
Vendor profile
Paycom
Paycom is a single-database human capital management and payroll platform whose applicant tracking system automates recruiting with resume parsing, keyword/knockout candidate filtering, automated correspondence, generative job-description writing, and a command-driven AI data-query engine (IWant).
§ The record
Dayforce and Paycom are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773.
| Record | Dayforce | Paycom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 1992 | 1998 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 22% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Dayforce 68 · Paycom 55
1.6 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 44% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Dayforce 40 · Paycom 30
1.5 weighted points to Dayforce
20% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Dayforce 74 · Paycom 68
1.2 weighted points to Dayforce
12% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Dayforce 47 · Paycom 38
1.1 weighted points to Dayforce
8% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Dayforce 70 · Paycom 60
0.8 weighted points to Dayforce
18% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Dayforce 42 · Paycom 38
0.7 weighted points to Dayforce
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Dayforce 63 · Paycom 62
0.1 weighted points to Dayforce
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +7.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Dayforce minus Paycom.
| Category | Weight | Dayforce | Paycom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 74 | 68 | +6 | +1.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 38 | +4 | +0.7 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 40 | 30 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 63 | 62 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 68 | 55 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 47 | 38 | +9 | +1.1 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 70 | 60 | +10 | +0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 57 (F) | 50 (F) | +7 | +7.0 |
§ 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 | Dayforce | Paycom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Dayforce has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; Paycom has 20 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 with a source URL, 7 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 54 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Dayforce, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Dayforce last reviewed
- August 2, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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