Side-by-side · Rubric v1.0
hackajob vs Paycor
hackajob
Archer, hackajob's AI sourcing agent, is calibrated by a recruiter on a hiring brief, then finds, engages and qualifies passive candidates from a 1.5m-member pool and 800m+ indexed profiles and invites those who meet the bar to apply through the employer's existing ATS.
Substantial gaps
Sourcing
Paycor
Paycor, a Paychex company, sells a mid-market HR and payroll suite whose recruiting tools include the Paycor Recruiting ATS, Paycor Smart Sourcing (formerly Talenya), which uses AI to build a prioritized list of passive and active candidates for each role and automate outreach, and a WISE assistant that phone-screens candidates and scores their answers.
Substantial gaps
ATS-integrated
The result
hackajob leads Paycor by 5 points.
hackajob scores 45 and Paycor 40 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Sourcing and ATS-integrated cohorts. hackajob leads 4 of the 7 criteria, including Article 11 Technical Documentation, while Paycor leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency, and 2 are level. One criterion, Article 11 Technical Documentation, is both the widest raw gap (hackajob 60, Paycor 40) and the heaviest weighted swing, and at 20% weight it makes up 63% of the weighted advantage hackajob holds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Criteria won
7 criteria
- hackajob4
- Paycor1
- Level2
- Widest raw gap
- Article 11 Technical Documentation60 vs 40
- Heaviest weighted swing
- Article 11 Technical Documentation20% weight
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The record
Categories, scope and company facts.
hackajob is filed under Candidate sourcing AI, Paycor under ATS-integrated AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Screening.
Both are in scope of
| Record | hackajob | Paycor |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | US |
| Founded | 2014 | 1990 |
What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
- 1
Article 11 Technical Documentation
20% weight55% of the movement so far
hackajob60Paycor404.0 weighted points to hackajob
- 2
Data Governance Disclosure
15% weight72% of the movement so far
hackajob58Paycor501.2 weighted points to hackajob
- 3
Bias Audit Transparency
18% weight84% of the movement so far
hackajob20Paycor250.9 weighted points to Paycor
- 4
FRIA Support
15% weight94% of the movement so far
hackajob32Paycor270.8 weighted points to hackajob
- 5
Customer Documentation
8% weight100% of the movement so far
hackajob60Paycor550.4 weighted points to hackajob
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +5.5 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.5.
Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is hackajob minus Paycor, coloured for whichever of the two it favours.
| Category | Weight | hackajob | Paycor | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 60 | 40 | +20 | +4.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 20 | 25 | -5 | -0.9 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 32 | 27 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 58 | 50 | +8 | +1.2 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 55 | 55 | - | - |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 38 | 38 | - | - |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 60 | 55 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 45F | 40F | +5 | +5.5 |
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 | hackajob | Paycor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 8 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 6 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 38 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 24 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
hackajob has 42 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 38 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Paycor has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 24 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Paycor sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 72 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 42 for hackajob, across 2 distinct source domains, and 30 for Paycor, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- hackajob last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Paycor last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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