§ The result
2 points separate Paylocity and eSkill.
Paylocity holds a 2-point edge over eSkill under rubric v1.0, 43 to 41, across the ATS-integrated and Assessment cohorts. The 7 criteria split 4 to 2 in favour of Paylocity, with 1 level: Paylocity is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and eSkill on Human Oversight Design. Bias Audit Transparency is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — eSkill 25, Paylocity 33 — and at an 18% weight it carries 43% of the weighted advantage Paylocity holds across the 4 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
eSkill
eSkill is a pre-employment testing platform with auto-scored skills, cognitive and behavioral tests and human-rated one-way video interviews, plus an optional Proctorio-powered AI proctoring add-on that gives each candidate a suspicion score and a Claude-based "Linea" layer that drafts assessments from job descriptions.
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
eSkill is filed under Assessment AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Mobley v. Workday and Colorado AI Act.
| Record | eSkill | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2003 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
eSkill 25 · Paylocity 33
1.4 weighted points to Paylocity
15% weight · 50% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
eSkill 47 · Paylocity 54
1.1 weighted points to Paylocity
12% weight · 66% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
eSkill 57 · Paylocity 50
0.8 weighted points to eSkill
20% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
eSkill 48 · Paylocity 44
0.8 weighted points to eSkill
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
eSkill 36 · Paylocity 42
0.7 weighted points to Paylocity
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
eSkill 56 · Paylocity 58
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -1.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 5.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -2 beside that -1.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is eSkill minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | eSkill | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 48 | 44 | +4 | +0.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 33 | -8 | -1.4 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 47 | 54 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 57 | 50 | +7 | +0.8 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 36 | 42 | -6 | -0.7 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 56 | 58 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Total | 100% | 41 (F) | 43 (F) | -2 | -1.7 |
§ 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 | eSkill | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 1 | Sources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 5 | 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
eSkill has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 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 eSkill 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: 30 for eSkill, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- eSkill last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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