§ The result
Fuel50 leads Paylocity by 15 points.
Fuel50 finishes 15 points clear of Paylocity under rubric v1.0 — 58 against 43 — across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. Paylocity takes 1 of the 7 criteria, Post-Market Monitoring among them, against 6 for Fuel50, whose share includes Bias Audit Transparency. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Fuel50 68, Paylocity 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 42% of the weighted advantage Fuel50 holds across the 6 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Fuel50
Fuel50 is an AI internal talent marketplace and workforce-transformation platform that matches employees to internal roles, gigs, mentors, learning and career paths, and fit-scores and ranks internal candidates for open roles and succession pipelines, using a skills ontology curated by in-house I/O psychologists.
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
Fuel50 is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paylocity under ATS-integrated AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773 and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Fuel50 | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2011 | 1997 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 42% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Fuel50 68 · Paylocity 33
6.3 weighted points to Fuel50
20% weight · 76% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Fuel50 70 · Paylocity 44
5.2 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Fuel50 64 · Paylocity 54
1.5 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Fuel50 61 · Paylocity 50
1.3 weighted points to Fuel50
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Fuel50 62 · Paylocity 58
0.3 weighted points to Fuel50
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Fuel50 32 · Paylocity 30
0.3 weighted points to Fuel50
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Fuel50 40 · Paylocity 42
0.2 weighted points to Paylocity
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +14.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 15.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +15 beside that +14.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Fuel50 minus Paylocity.
| Category | Weight | Fuel50 | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 70 | 44 | +26 | +5.2 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 68 | 33 | +35 | +6.3 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 30 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 54 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 61 | 50 | +11 | +1.3 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 40 | 42 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 62 | 58 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 58 (F) | 43 (F) | +15 | +14.7 |
§ 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 | Fuel50 | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 5 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources 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 | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 24 | 4 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Fuel50 has 28 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 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 Fuel50 sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 28 for Fuel50, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Fuel50 last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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