§ The result
Paylocity leads Entelo on all 7 criteria.
Paylocity sits 10 points above Entelo under rubric v1.0 — 43 against 33 — with Paylocity filed under ATS-integrated and Entelo under Sourcing. Paylocity is ahead of Entelo on all 7 criteria but on none of them by as much as 20 raw points, the closest being FRIA Support at Entelo 25 to Paylocity 30. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Entelo 40, Paylocity 58) and Article 11 Technical Documentation at 20% (Entelo 30, Paylocity 44), the second being 27% of the weighted advantage Paylocity holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Entelo
Entelo is an AI-powered talent sourcing and diversity-recruiting platform that aggregates hundreds of millions of public candidate profiles and applies predictive machine-learning models to score, rank, and surface (including underrepresented) candidates for recruiters.
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
Entelo is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144 and Illinois HB 3773. Only Paylocity is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Entelo | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 27% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Entelo 30 · Paylocity 44
2.8 weighted points to Paylocity
18% weight · 49% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Entelo 20 · Paylocity 33
2.3 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Entelo 40 · Paylocity 58
1.4 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Entelo 45 · Paylocity 54
1.3 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Entelo 42 · Paylocity 50
1.0 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 93% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Entelo 35 · Paylocity 42
0.8 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Entelo 25 · Paylocity 30
0.8 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -10.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 10.5 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 -10.5.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Entelo minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Entelo | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 30 | 44 | -14 | -2.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 33 | -13 | -2.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 45 | 54 | -9 | -1.3 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 42 | 50 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 42 | -7 | -0.8 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 40 | 58 | -18 | -1.4 |
| Total | 100% | 33 (F) | 43 (F) | -10 | -10.5 |
§ 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 | Entelo | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 0 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 1 | 1 | — | 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% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 9 | 8 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Entelo has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 9 with a source URL, 8 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 34 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 16 for Entelo, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Entelo last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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