Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
Greenhouse vs Paylocity
Greenhouse
End-to-end applicant tracking system and structured-hiring platform, now layered with 'Greenhouse AI' features such as resume parsing, Talent Matching, and interview summarisation.
Concerning
ATS-integrated
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."
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
Greenhouse leads Paylocity on all 7 criteria.
The ATS-integrated cohort pairing of Greenhouse and Paylocity comes out 67 (D) to 43 (F) under rubric v1.0, a 24-point lead for Greenhouse. Of the 7 criteria Paylocity wins none, and the narrowest lead Greenhouse holds is on Customer Documentation, Greenhouse 64 to Paylocity 58. One criterion, Bias Audit Transparency, is both the widest raw gap (Greenhouse 86, Paylocity 33) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 18% weight it makes up 40% of the weighted advantage Greenhouse holds across the 7 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- Greenhouse7
- Paylocity0
- Widest raw gap
- Bias Audit Transparency86 vs 33
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Bias Audit Transparency18% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
Greenhouse and Paylocity are both filed under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
Only Paylocity is in scope of
| Record | Greenhouse | Paylocity |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Enterprise | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2012 | 1997 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight40% of the movement so far
Greenhouse86Paylocity339.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 2
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight68% of the movement so far
Greenhouse78Paylocity446.8 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 3
Human Oversight Design
12% weight76% of the movement so far
Greenhouse66Paylocity501.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 4
Post-Market Monitoring
12% weight84% of the movement so far
Greenhouse58Paylocity421.9 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 5
FRIA Support
15% weight92% of the movement so far
Greenhouse42Paylocity301.8 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 6
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight98% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64Paylocity541.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
- 7
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
Greenhouse64Paylocity580.5 weighted points to Greenhouse
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +24.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 24.0 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +24 beside that +24.0.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Greenhouse minus Paylocity, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | Greenhouse | Paylocity | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 78 | 44 | +34 | +6.8 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 86 | 33 | +53 | +9.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 42 | 30 | +12 | +1.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 64 | 54 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 66 | 50 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +1.9 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 64 | 58 | +6 | +0.5 |
| Total | 100% | 67D | 43F | +24 | +24.0 |
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 | Greenhouse | Paylocity | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 2 | 0 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| 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% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 3 | 0 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domain |
Greenhouse has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; Paylocity has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Greenhouse sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 35 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for Greenhouse, across 3 distinct source domains, and 18 for Paylocity, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Greenhouse last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paylocity last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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