§ The result
4 points separate Paylocity and DevSkiller.
Paylocity (ATS-integrated) edges DevSkiller (Assessment) by 4 points under rubric v1.0, 43 to 39. Paylocity leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Bias Audit Transparency, while DevSkiller leads 1, including Human Oversight Design, and 1 is level. Bias Audit Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (DevSkiller 22, Paylocity 33, 18% weight), but it accounts for only 39% of the weighted advantage Paylocity holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
DevSkiller
DevSkiller (now branded SkillPanel) provides technical skills assessment and coding tests that automatically score developer candidates on real-world work-sample tasks using hidden verification unit tests and static code analysis.
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
DevSkiller is filed under Assessment AI, Paylocity 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, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | DevSkiller | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | PL | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 35% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
DevSkiller 22 · Paylocity 33
2.0 weighted points to Paylocity
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
DevSkiller 35 · Paylocity 44
1.8 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 80% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
DevSkiller 25 · Paylocity 30
0.8 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
DevSkiller 55 · Paylocity 50
0.6 weighted points to DevSkiller
15% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
DevSkiller 52 · Paylocity 54
0.3 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
DevSkiller 40 · Paylocity 42
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -4.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -4 beside that -4.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is DevSkiller minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | DevSkiller | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 35 | 44 | -9 | -1.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 22 | 33 | -11 | -2.0 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 54 | -2 | -0.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 50 | +5 | +0.6 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 43 (F) | -4 | -4.5 |
§ 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 | DevSkiller | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 4 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
DevSkiller has 15 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 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; some documentation or audit rows for DevSkiller sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 15 for DevSkiller, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- DevSkiller last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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