§ The result
Paycom leads Fetcher on all 7 criteria.
Paycom sits 13 points above Fetcher under rubric v1.0 — 50 against 37 — with Paycom filed under ATS-integrated and Fetcher under Sourcing. Paycom leads every one of the 7 criteria, Fetcher none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Human Oversight Design, Fetcher 52 to Paycom 55. Article 11 Technical Documentation is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Fetcher 27, Paycom 68 — and at a 20% weight it carries 63% of the weighted advantage Paycom holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Fetcher
AI-powered candidate sourcing and outbound recruiting platform that automates passive and active talent sourcing, personalized email outreach, and inbound applicant screening for corporate recruiting teams.
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
Fetcher is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paycom 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.
| Record | Fetcher | Paycom |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Enterprise |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 1998 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 63% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fetcher 27 · Paycom 68
8.2 weighted points to Paycom
18% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fetcher 28 · Paycom 38
1.8 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fetcher 55 · Paycom 62
1.1 weighted points to Paycom
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fetcher 25 · Paycom 30
0.8 weighted points to Paycom
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fetcher 55 · Paycom 60
0.4 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 97% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fetcher 52 · Paycom 55
0.4 weighted points to Paycom
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fetcher 35 · Paycom 38
0.4 weighted points to Paycom
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -12.9 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 12.9 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -13 beside that -12.9.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fetcher minus Paycom.
| Category | Weight | Fetcher | Paycom | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 27 | 68 | -41 | -8.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 28 | 38 | -10 | -1.8 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 25 | 30 | -5 | -0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 55 | 62 | -7 | -1.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 52 | 55 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 35 | 38 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 55 | 60 | -5 | -0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 50 (F) | -13 | -12.9 |
§ 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 | Fetcher | Paycom | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| 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 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 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% | 13 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 13 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Fetcher has 19 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 13 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 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 19 for Fetcher, across 1 distinct source domain, and 20 for Paycom, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fetcher last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycom last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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